[olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.

[Rob Townley]

What about checking everything into git or hg or some repo.

Do your install and git diff.

On Feb 5, 2015 8:28 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> 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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