[olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.

[Dan Linder]

Well, I found "http://portablelinuxapps.org/".  It looks close, but I've
not looked at it closely.

I'm not quite convinced this is the solution...but it might be what is
available.  (Though I'm sure with a few scripts to capture the rpm/deb
databases before and after, along with some sort of filesystem monitor
script, plus other hacker wizadry it's possible if the Portable Linux Apps
option fails me.)

Dan

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Damian Harouff <cekkent at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know of a pointy-clicky tool, but I use Ansible to deploy
> replicated setups to servers: http://www.ansible.com/how-ansible-works
>
> It doesn't have a "record" function, but your shell history should be able
> to provide you with a command history that you can use to generate an
> Ansible playbook.
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > Many years ago on Windows there was a tool I could use to take a snapshot
> > of a computer, then I could install programs, edit files, update the
> > registry, reboot, etc, and the next time I ran that snapshot tool it
> would
> > save a file that summarized all the changes performed.  From there it was
> > possible to replicate that install to other compatible Windows systems by
> > "replaying" that summary file.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a similar tool on the Linux side (RHEL/CentOS)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > DanL
> >
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