On 4/17/19 12:35 PM, Beartooth wrote:
That's one of the tweaks I always do right away, yes. But aren't
there individual things in /usr, /bin, /usr/bin, and other such places?
Anything user related is in /home/ (or /root). System-wide
configuration is in /etc. That should be it.
If
Beartooth:
That's one of the tweaks I always do right away, yes. But aren't
there individual things in /usr, /bin, /usr/bin, and other such places?
All user files are in the user's home directory.
Now you could of course also look into /etc/, /var/ and maybe some more
but for me the
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:21:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>> Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop
>> that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a
>> repair if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight in
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote:
> Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from
> Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username.
Yes, and no... (Anaconda picking the same UID.) It's the *numerical*
user identification. Likewise, GID is the
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:07:24 +1000
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Is there an advantage to doing this with a mount?
I used a symlink for a while till various programs
started refusing to work with /home a symlink because the
security geeks had decided something dodgy must
be going on.
If the same prog
On 17Apr2019 18:43, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:07:37 +1200
Seth Kenlon wrote:
> > * reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location.
My technique is to have home on a separate disk
and just change /home in the install partition to a bind mount
of home from the
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +, Beartooth wrote:
> I didn't know yum still worked in Fedora. Is && a command?? Or
> what?
yum is now just a symbolic link to dnf. The old version of yum is still
avaliable as yum-deprecated.
'&&' is standard Shell syntax. 'foo && bar' means 'run bar if
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:07:37 +1200
Seth Kenlon wrote:
> > > * reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location.
My technique is to have home on a separate disk
and just change /home in the install partition to a bind mount
of home from the other disk (rename the installed /home an
> > * install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install
>
> Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from
> Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username.
>
Yes, sorry - I was being explicit because it's possible that a user chooses
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:40:55 +1200, Seth Kenlon wrote:
> Interesting that you say this. My experience is the opposite. Here's
> what I do:
>
> * install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install
Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from
Union Pac
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:38:51 +0200, David Dusanic wrote:
> Richard England:
>> On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>>> Profile?! What profile?? Where is it?? And HOW do you transfer
>>> it
>>> to the new device?? It sounds like the "better way" I'm looking for!
>>
>> The profile for Thun
On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote:
Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop
that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a repair
if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight into single user, or
find out again how. I spent a few days tryi
Richard England:
On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps
that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that
one!) and with all the calendars,
Patrick O'Callaghan:
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on
the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of
updating? I for one can't remember the last time I did a fresh install.
I've been updating version after version for at least the past 4 year
(Re: *my* installing rather than upgrading)
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:46 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It can take a while certainly, but any compatibility problems I've
> had tend to be because of packages changing between versions, and
> that's the same whether you upgrade or reinstall (I
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> This may not be the answer you're looking for, but (if this is all on
> the same machine of course) why are you reinstalling instead of
> updating?
I tried to forestall that question by saying "But sometimes for
instance I
On 4/16/19 8:53 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps
that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that
one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:07:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps
> that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that
> one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the
> profile that was c
>
> ...I haven't had any upgrade issues for a long time.
+++1
yep, the "proven packager" did it very well since several Releases !
;-)
"Beta-Release-Day is *MY* Release-Day"
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On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 18:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:33:08 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > so are you flipping between two
> > partitions on each new install
>
> Correct. I have a 64G SSD drive with two partitions for
> two versions of fedora, and I flip between
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 12:48 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > why are you reinstalling instead of updating?
>
> I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it
> spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating indi
On 4/15/19 8:18 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
why are you reinstalling instead of updating?
I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it
spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual
packages), and I
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 20:22 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> why are you reinstalling instead of updating?
I haven't done that for ages, but I always found it dead slow (it
spends ages computing what to do, and ages updating individual
packages), and I'd get compatibility problems (changes betw
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:33:08 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> so are you flipping between two
> partitions on each new install
Correct. I have a 64G SSD drive with two partitions for
two versions of fedora, and I flip between them for each
install (and can refer back to the old one if I find
so
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get
> > rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it.
>
> I always reinstall for that very reason. Plus I'
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:22:29 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I keep thinking that maybe I should reinstall just to get
> rid of random cruft, but can never be bothered to do it.
I always reinstall for that very reason. Plus I've worked
out a great way to do it: Install a virtual machine, guest
+1
Updating on Fedora is [surprisingly?] effective.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:23 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:07 +, Beartooth wrote:
> > As an old retired fart blissfully unconcerned with production of
> > anything, I can afford all this; but it's gawdawf
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:07 +, Beartooth wrote:
> As an old retired fart blissfully unconcerned with production of
> anything, I can afford all this; but it's gawdawful tedious. If there's a
> better way that a non-technoid can use, somebody please clue me in!
This may not be the an
I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps
that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that
one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the
profile that was created when I first installed and configured itand
transfer it to
Urrrggghhh
in 1. you need to generate the list via:
dnf list installed | cut -d " " -f1 | sort -u >> rpm_to_delete.txt
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@ Seth Kenlon
a separat and during install untouched (just mount it) /home partition could
save the sync time too
:-)
@ Beartooth
1. after install:
dnf list installed | sort -u >> rpm_to_delete.txt
2. edit rpm_to_delete.txt and clean it up so that only the rpm are left over
you want to delet
Interesting that you say this. My experience is the opposite. Here's what I do:
* install a fresh image
* use the same user and UID as previous install
* reboot
* rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location. This brings
in all application-specific preferences so I don't have to arrange
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