Re: [O] Orgmode for managing OS configuration

[Karl Voit]

* Giacomo M <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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?

I posted my approach on this list in May:

> From: Karl Voit <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Using source blocks instead of Ansible
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 23:02:28 +0200

(Since the web interface of gmane is down for the moment, I can't
give you a link.)


I am not using tangling. I limit myself to just install packages and
modify settings via search/replace instead.

HTH

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