On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 17:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:04:52 -0400 > Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You know what was the painless part of this re-install? After firing > > up google chrome, I didn't need to reinstall anything for it. It's > > all synced with gmail. > > > > I find myself wishing that all my fedora packages could be restored > > just like that. > > > > Oh sure, there's a few methods for automaticing installs. But none > > are so brain-dead easy. Imagine, just 1 click (or command) to sync > > all the packages (and maybe /etc?) to some server, and 1 step to > > reinstall back to the last state. > > > > What's that? Wouldn't work over upgrades? Somehow it does for > > chrome. And for android. > > > > You want to do that? I can give you a couple of ideas: > - register your host and have it upload your pkgs list + repos list to > fedorapeople using your account > - on update/reinstall - you are prompted for this same info and yum > tries to put back the same set of pkgs. > > It would miss if a repo is not updated to the next release, yet, or if > programs moved around in pkgs A LOT - but in many many cases it would > work. > > the edge cases would suck, though, but that's true in general in > packaging. > > > I only suggested fedorapeople.org b/c it is immediately available and > obvious - but a web app which stored these lists would also work, > trivially. > > If you're interested in working on it I can imagine a number of places > to shove this data and I know what's necessary from the rpmdb/yum > history/repos to do it. Possibly Firefox Sync? That seems like the framework/repository which seems to have the best shot of becoming 'The Sync Thing' for F/OSS, if anywhere. It's intentionally written to be capable of syncing more-or-less generic 'data' and to be usable by non-Mozilla-y things. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
