A while back I switched to vcsh.
I’ve written a few articles
on using it
but since then I’ve migrated machines a number of times.
The big issue I’ve found is having to manually install software
on each machine. There are things my scripts depend on and things I
just expect to have and manually creating them each time is annoying.
The solution obviously is a script. It’s actually used all the
time as I might create new dependencies or find new tools I need so I’d
want that installed on all machines. it then runs in my ~/.zlogin file
and by using a local stamp file (unlike for third-pary sources ) it reminds me periodically to run
update now.
It first updates itself, it uses mr to update all my vim repositories,
and then mostly uses native packaging tools to install software.
Switching to version control for home dirs was a lot of the battle, but
getting the tools and things I need on the machines has been the next one.
As it stands I can now pretty quickly get up to speed on a new machine in
just a few minutes. It would be nice to have something where I could go,
curl https://phrye.com/HOME | bash instead of having to remember the
initial vcsh commands but that’s a further project.
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| #!/bin/bash
set -e
stamp_dir=~/.config/update
stamp_file=~/.config/update/.last-update.stamp
if [[ ! -d $stamp_dir ]]; then
mkdir -p $stamp_dir
fi
do_update() {
# Update homedir.
if [[ "$1" != "vcsh-update-done" ]]; then
vcsh pull
exec "$0" now vcsh-update-done
fi
# Update vim modules.
cd ~/.vim
mr update
# Update system.
kernel=$(uname -v)
echo "Running specific steps for '$kernel'."
case "$kernel" in
FreeBSD*)
makewhatis ~/.config/home-man
if [ ! -f /usr/local/go/bin/go ]; then
sudo pkg install go
fi
for pkg in python3 py36-sqlite3 gsed bind-tools go awscli; do
if ! pkg list $pkg > /dev/null; then
pkg install $pkg
fi
done
;;
*Ubuntu*)
if [[ ! -d /var/lib/slack ]]; then
if [[ -d /etc/sudoers.d && ! -f "/etc/sudoers.d/$USER" ]]; then
echo "$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" \
| sudo -p "Please enter password to configure sudo: " \
tee "/etc/sudoers.d/$USER" > /dev/null
fi
sudo -p "Please enter password to install packages: " \
apt install vim-nox unzip wget tree gpg pwgen fortune \
perl-doc bc shellcheck yamllint clang-tidy \
cppcheck flawfinder gitlint lua-check \
python3-flake8 pylint3 screen python3-defusedxml
go_tar=go1.10.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
go_tar_dir=$HOME/.config/update
if [[ ! -d "$go_tar_dir" ]]; then
mkdir "$go_tar_dir"
fi
if [[ ! -f "$go_tar_dir/$go_tar" ]]; then
wget --quiet -O "$go_tar_dir/$go_tar" -c https://dl.google.com/go/$go_tar
if [[ -d /usr/local/go ]]; then
sudo -p "Please enter password to remove old go installation: " \
rm -rf /usr/local/go
fi
fi
if [[ ! -d /usr/local/go ]]; then
echo "Installing new go version."
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "$go_tar_dir/$go_tar"
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/src/go
export KEVIN_GOWARN=1
fi
fi
;;
esac
# If homebrew exists; update it too.
if [[ -f /Users/kevin/Homebrew/bin/brew ]]; then
brew update
brew upgrade
fi
if [[ "$KEVIN_GOWARN" == 1 ]]; then
cat << EOF
Run the following in each currently open shell (or just log out and log
in again):
export PATH=$PATH
export GOPATH=$GOPATH
EOF
fi
touch $stamp_file
}
do_check() {
update_required=false
if [[ ! -f $stamp_file ]]; then
update_required=true
else
if [[ $0 -nt $stamp_file ]]; then
update_required=true
fi
if find $stamp_file -mtime +21 | grep -q stamp; then
update_required=true
fi
fi
if $update_required; then
echo "INFO: Need to run 'update now' to update home dir."
fi
}
do_usage() {
echo "$0 [now|check]"
}
case "$1" in
up|update|now)
do_update "$2"
;;
check|"")
do_check
;;
*)
do_usage
;;
esac
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