Re: Feature request ... or How to.

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> If you think it is something needed all the tools are open to you to start.
>> 
>> 1. generating an installed pkg list into an rss feed. - trivial.
>> 2. having a history of everything installed/updated/removed - available now 
>> with the yum history db(thanks james!)
>> 
>> The piece you need to work on is taking the rss feed and using that to make 
>> the boxes match _mostly_.
>> 
>
> What about 2 scripts.
>
> One to collect config files from all installed files then process them to 
> strip system veriables, passwords, IP's, etc. And then to package them into 
> rpm. Extract point would be separate folder that second script could use 
> (with internal database with original location of config files) to offer 
> manual control and placement within original locations on new system.
>
> First script would find system variables, track down those values within 
> scripts and replace them with internal variables that second script would 
> replace with variables from new system.
>
> First script should also check if folder/paths it configs are links (both 
> hard and soft) and offer to recreate them. This should follow several levels 
> of links in case there are links to links.
>
> Ljubomir

Sounds like something You and Les should work on together.

-sv