Attention PLUG Steering guys: Here's a volunteer to give a presentation once we have a physical location!   Or, if He's not local, some sort of video thing, with or without a physical location. (Right, Alexander? ;-) On 7/24/24 08:19, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > This isn't idiocy, this is the infancy of automation! What if you could get > Ann entirely new PC and then you could run "a thing" on it to completely > provision and configure all your settings and files just how you want it?!? > > This thing already exists, it's free, and easy to learn. > > Welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of ANSIBLE! > > It's called "Configuration Management", and in the world of ANSIBLE, you > write playbooks and those playbook execute tasks. > > If you're interested to know more, let me know. Aside from being a big fan > of Ansible, it's also literally my day job. > > -- > Thanks, > Alexander > > Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 07:34 Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> what I mean by easier is if I have to reinstall the OS/get a new computer >> it is easier to write it into a text file, save it in gmail as a draft, and >> then open up that draft if I need it. I have a LOT of drafts like this. >> Commands, paragraphs that I have to repeat, stuff like that. You might >> think I'm an idiot but let my idiocy inspire you! >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:26 AM Michael wrote: >> >>> as for doing this graphically I think it is easier to copy-n-paste into a >>> terminal: >>> sudo apt-mark hold package1 package2 package3 >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM Michael wrote: >>> >>>> Look at what I just discovered: The apt-mark hold command is >>>> used to prevent a specific package from being upgraded on Debian-based >>>> systems. >>>> I hated waiting for firefox to update! (I don't use ff) Could we start a >>>> list of other big packages that don't need to be updated? >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss