On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 14:34 +0000, unman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 08:54:23AM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > The problem is when I change the main TemplateVM and want to apply the > > change to all existing system volumes. For example, recently I've > > migrated some really useful configuration settings (e.g., enabling > > undo-tree by default in Emacs and setting "merge.conflictstyle = diff3" > > in Git) from the user volume of my "main" AppVM to my TemplateVM so I > > would enjoy their benefits in all AppVMs. If I had multiple > > TemplateVMs, I would have to somehow copy those changes to all of them. > > If I changed a single file, maybe I could write a script that does a > > bunch of qvm-copy commands. But if I want to make sure things do not > > get out of sync over time due to mistakes, it would help to have a > > management tool of some kind. > > Just one word - salt. > Salt your templates, and you can straightforwardly clone, and configure, > those templates with one command. > Using salt also has the benefit that you can sit down at a new machine, > pull down the salt config and recreate your system. No more wondering if > you kept track of what was installed, or whether your scripts contain > all the nice config changes you laboured over.
I thought someone might mention Salt. :) If you feel like it, to satisfy my curiosity, can you point me to documentation on how I'd use Salt to copy a file to all templates? I'm still more likely to use my original proposed solution though. In the long term, I'd indeed like to have a concise script of some kind to reproduce all my templates. It will be a significant amount of work to find all my customizations and get them into such a script, so I'm seeking a nearer-term solution for these proprietary apps. But while we're on the topic: while mutating templates may be a decent solution for rapid iteration, how fast could I make the clean regeneration run? Is there a reasonable way to generate one template and then generate the others from it? Might OSTree be helpful? Thanks for any insights! Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/4ae4a598822a4b3d208dd9f7bcf6b3cd8686f29d.camel%40mattmccutchen.net.
