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Hello Dear Debians,
what is the best practice for easy update & dist-upgrade:
1. in terms of speed and easy of distro updates, it makes sense to separate
* /root (software (programs) that can be re-downloaded) (on
separate single suepr fast SSD or NVMe)
* /home (non-reblacable unique data (massive amounts of space with
8x4TB software mdadm RAID10))
2. when a new Debian 12 is coming out
* how to re-play all those changes, installs, configs and programs
made to /root?
* mergo changes from a git repo into (also changed/updated by
distro) config files?
o and just pray it works :) (it will very often work :)
3. if things go wrong there is still this nice "show me all changes to
logs in beautiful colors" one liner
* (ccze is very much needed also in Debian 12 :) (tried many
alternatives)
* find /var/log/* -type f \( -name "*" \) ! -path '*.gz*' -exec
tail -n0 -f "$file" {} + | ccze
would it be cool if such a system was already "build into" GNU Linux Debian?
Like:
1. install a very basic Debian 11 template
2. apply all changes (all changes will be recorded to a separate
partition (!?) or a local git repo!?) and saved as a "config
snapshot" that can be re applied as soon as Debian 12 template is
released :)?
just an idea :)
to automate those updates :)
(which with very basic systems with basic services just work (mostly) flawlessly thanks all involved :)
best reg
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<p>Hello Dear Debians,</p>
<p>what is the best practice for easy update & dist-upgrade:</p>
<ol>
<li>in terms of speed and easy of distro updates, it makes sense
to separate</li>
<ul>
<li>/root (software (programs) that can be re-downloaded) (on
separate single suepr fast SSD or NVMe)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>/home (non-reblacable unique data (massive amounts of space
with 8x4TB software mdadm RAID10))</li>
</ul>
<li>when a new Debian 12 is coming out</li>
<ul>
<li>how to re-play all those changes, installs, configs and
programs made to /root?</li>
<li>mergo changes from a git repo into (also changed/updated by
distro) config files?</li>
<ul>
<li>and just pray it works :) (it will very often work :)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>if things go wrong there is still this nice "show me all
changes to logs in beautiful colors" one liner</li>
<ul>
<li>(ccze is very much needed also in Debian 12 :) (tried many
alternatives)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><font face="monospace">find /var/log/* -type f \( -name "*"
\) ! -path '*.gz*' -exec tail -n0 -f "$file" {} + | ccze</font></li>
</ul>
</ol>
<p>would it be cool if such a system was already "build into" GNU
Linux Debian?</p>
<p>Like: <br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>install a very basic Debian 11 template</li>
<li>apply all changes (all changes will be recorded to a separate
partition (!?) or a local git repo!?) and saved as a "config
snapshot" that can be re applied as soon as Debian 12 template
is released :)?</li>
</ol>
<p>just an idea :)</p>
<p>to automate those updates :)</p>
<p>(which with very basic systems with basic services just work
(mostly) flawlessly thanks all involved :)</p>
<p>best reg<br>
</p>
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