From: Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Orgmode for managing OS configuration
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:50:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvhgbrlb.fsf@jupiter.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+GKSr4nQFuinoJL4Ba81uXvZLzyfU0eYUtQ7SeaSnu2Dq+7zg@mail.gmail.com
Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear all,
> I would like to clean up my Linux setup to be easily replicable. I am
> considering keeping everything in one org file, and then tangling
> files (e.g. exec scripts, systemd service unit files) and executing
> bash snippets (e.g. for installing packages and sed'ing config files).
> Then one would need just emacs and git (or rsync) to start with.
>
> Does anybody have experience with this? Is the experience positive or
> negative?
>
> Also, should I just run emacs as root? Or using somehow sudo non
> interactively for babel blocks execution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Giacomo M
Do you know about nixos and guixsd? Sounds like you want to implement
here something similar, except less good cause this distributions have
also atomic updates and features like testing a configuration and
rollback features and some sort of conflict management, also it can
switch "profiles" without reboots and stuff like that.
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2016-11-03 11:44 ` Orgmode for managing OS configuration Giacomo M
2016-11-03 13:50 ` Stefan Huchler [this message]
2016-11-03 14:22 ` Giacomo M
2016-11-03 14:30 ` PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
2016-11-03 20:24 ` John Hendy
2016-11-03 16:02 ` William Denton
2016-11-03 18:20 ` Grant Rettke
2016-11-26 18:26 ` Karl Voit
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