Latitude D830
The thing with a new laptop is that you have to transfer your data again and again and again .. and that you forget to install packages you installed once..
All the theory about large scale installs and reproducability isn't worth a dime on a tool you install stuff to on a daily base.
Anyone has a good recipe to manage his own workstation t?
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#1 Kris Buytaert : Beta and Beta`
The problem not being to reinstall all packages you got from a repo but mostly too bleeding edge stuff.. that hasn't been packaged yet.
Or stuff that hasn't ever been packaged.
#2 Serge van Ginderachter : On a deb system no
On a deb system no problem:
- backup repositories sources list (sources.list)
- backup installed package list (dpkg-getselections)
Not sure about rpm distro's.
Manually installed packages are harder, obviously.