[lug] Personal 'layer'

[Scott Rohling]

Great idea about grabbing the package listing.. (dpkg -l >
/home/mypackages.lst    or some such thing).  I'll stick that in my backup
script.  Also like the /home/opt idea as many of my apps are in /opt as
well..   Only trouble there is just because the app is in /opt doesn't mean
it's dependencies are -- so that's where that listing would come in handy.
Thanks, Sebastian!

-Scott

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Sebastian Sobolewski (Spsobole) <
spsobole at thirdmartini.com> wrote:

>
> That's a cleaver idea.  What I have done in the past is partition my Linux
> boxes as:
> /
> /home
> /opt -> /home/opt
>
> When I reinstall/upgrade/etc I just have it leave my home directory alone
> and
> reformat and install  into /.  All my custom apps are in /opt so there is
> nothing more to do after the install.
>
> Though I have had to manually install some system updates which your
> solution
> solves.  It may be worth while to as you backup /home to also grab a
> listing
> of currently installed packages automatically so you can use that listing.
> (
> I'd easily forget all the packages I installed over a years time )
>
> -Sebastian
>
>
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