Linux drove me to get a Mac

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 9 16:30:53 UTC 2009


Jamon Camisso wrote:
> CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>> Jamon Camisso wrote:
>>> dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections will let you do a fresh
>>> install and then grab whatever the previous system (where you did
>>> get-selections) had marked as installed.
>>
>> That does nothing for configuration management and dumping the values
>> for selections that were made during install using
>> "debconf-get-selections" dpkg is all but useless since many of the
>> parameters are irrelevant in preseeding. I have come to really dislike
>> preseeding because of its many exceptions, complexity, and poor
>> documentation.
> 
> That's where your archived backups of /etc and /var come in :) In fact,
> why not just use dd and save using any package manager at all?

Because storing disk images for every system I need to manage isn't
something that scales. I know disk space is cheap but I prefer to
concentrate on getting the installation scripted, the configuration
managed via scripts kept under version control, and user data backed up
properly rather than using the blunt tool of disk images.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
1419-3266 Yonge St.
Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

<http://dinamis.com>
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