Greetings!
So I have several systems running Arch Linux now (3-4, depending on if Arch is still on the universities computer...).
Anyhow, as you might imagine I have installed this system quite a lot.
And there is one specific way I like my arch when it is an ordinary desktop or laptop computer (no touch or silly shenanigans like that): That is with i3wm, a certain set of packages, a specific set of configurations and some other things. Hunting the configs on other computers has been a bit annoying at times.
Now for future Arch Installations I want to make it easier for myself to load up this configuration onto the target system. Here is what I was thinking I should probably do:
- Have a file that lists all the major packages on my VPS and download that during install to pass the contents onto pacstrap or pacman.
- Maybe have a skeleton home folder on my VPS that I can also fetch. I'd then just have to put that into /etc/skel and every new user will get that configuration.
How do you guys deal with this? Do you just copy stuff from another machine? Do you have a post-install setup script?
TL;DR: have installed arch a lot. Sick of gathering up configs, want to automate.
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[–] aoeu [S] ago
Since most of the installs I do depend on the device I am using, I'd like to keep most of the install ritual. At least up to the point where I have a working system. After that gathering up configs is annoying, which is what I aim to automate. I should look into fetching stuff from my VPS with a script.