On 21 November 2010 20:40, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
If this really doesn't exist, I want to make a feature request;
but I have somehow missed discovering it.
Any time I do a fresh install, I have a big job afterward on each
machine. A third of it is going through PackageKit, adding and removing
apps; another third is getting all the launchers I want added onto the
panels I want; and the last third is going through the long tedious
litany to show dot files, single click, start this but not that on boot,
etc ad taedium vitae.
Surely there must be some way to tell Fedora to take note of what
I have, where I put it, and how I use it, then put it all into a file I
can copy to a USB stick or some such medium -- so that once the install
completes, I can give the stick and say "Here; go."
What you are describing is usually accomplished with Kickstart:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
The challenge is distilling all your tweaks into scripting commands
for the %post section ;o)
To be honest though, it sounds very much like what you want could be
accomplished by Kickstart for your package selection and then simply
copying over a templated home directory created after you had made the
changes you want to an existing copy. Everything you describe is
configured in .config/, .gnome2/ or .gconf/ and simply backing those
up and untarring in your new installation might do what you require.
--
Sam