On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:04:52 -0400
Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You know what was the painless part of this re-install? After firing
> up google chrome, I didn't need to reinstall anything for it. It's
> all synced with gmail.
>
> I find myself wishing that all my fedora packages could be restored
> just like that.
>
> Oh sure, there's a few methods for automaticing installs. But none
> are so brain-dead easy. Imagine, just 1 click (or command) to sync
> all the packages (and maybe /etc?) to some server, and 1 step to
> reinstall back to the last state.
>
> What's that? Wouldn't work over upgrades? Somehow it does for
> chrome. And for android.
>
You want to do that? I can give you a couple of ideas:
- register your host and have it upload your pkgs list + repos list to
fedorapeople using your account
- on update/reinstall - you are prompted for this same info and yum
tries to put back the same set of pkgs.
It would miss if a repo is not updated to the next release, yet, or if
programs moved around in pkgs A LOT - but in many many cases it would
work.
the edge cases would suck, though, but that's true in general in
packaging.
I only suggested
fedorapeople.org b/c it is immediately available and
obvious - but a web app which stored these lists would also work,
trivially.
If you're interested in working on it I can imagine a number of places
to shove this data and I know what's necessary from the rpmdb/yum
history/repos to do it.
Possibly Firefox Sync? That seems like the framework/repository which
seems to have the best shot of becoming 'The Sync Thing' for F/OSS, if
anywhere. It's intentionally written to be capable of syncing
more-or-less generic 'data' and to be usable by non-Mozilla-y things.
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