[Discuss] Moving Your Everyday System to New Hardware

[jbk at kjkelra.com (jbk)]

On 8/27/24 22:51, Rich Pieri wrote:
> My take on the process is rather mundane: I write it down. Every
> package I install and every custom change I make, I write it in text
> file which functions as a play book for deploying a functionally
> identical system regardless of the underlying hardware. And then I
> restore my home directory and non-OS data from backups (technically
> backup staging replicas).
>
I guess I'm lazy in that regard. There is Ansible that RH 
advocates in doing just this as you describe. On all my 
machines I have two root partitions. When it comes time to 
upgrade to the next distro version I format the other 
parition and then rsync the current system to the other then 
modify this in similar fashion as described in my initial 
post. I then distro sync this copy ot the next version. This 
has worked well for me for years and I do write down what 
has bitten me so that I know what to look for next time.

-- 
Jim KR