pellets
A declarative pacman wrapper for Arch Linux to manage installed packages with a single configuration file (by dpatti)
aconfmgr
A configuration manager for Arch Linux (by CyberShadow)
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pellets
Posts with mentions or reviews of pellets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-06.
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pellets: manage your packages with a configuration file
Hello! A while back I made pellets as a way of keeping track what I installed on my system so that I could clean up things I didn't need anymore. It also made setting up a new machine much quicker. Really what I wanted was something like Nix, but I went on a very long saga trying to use it as a package manager with Arch and it was... not viable. So I made pellets as a middle-ground: it's just a simple bash wrapper around pacman and doesn't demand complete control, but you can use a configuration file to keep your packages synchronized to a desired state. It also prunes old dependencies. I've been using it for over a year now and am really happy with the result.
aconfmgr
Posts with mentions or reviews of aconfmgr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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Arch noob
Establishing a backup strategy. I'm using BTRFS with snapper and a pacman hook that creates a new snapshot before each upgrade. With ext4 I used timeshift. Besides that, I save my arch configuration with aconfmgr and my files with borg
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New machine, same system: Top to bottom vs bottom to top
Since my last cloning I've setup aconfmgr and and systemd-homed. I've also been playing around with archinstall configs to partition the system with encryption how I like. In the future I'm planning to use archinstall and aconfmgr to setup a new system for me and then I'll copy over the backup of my home directory.
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Best way to "log" a re-creatable install?
try this https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
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Rebuild a system
Have you tried aconfmgr? In addition to installing packages, it also tracks configurations in /etc and modified files.
- Alternatives to home-manager?
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New arch install and partitioning, what's the best way to make backups that doesn't take up a ton of disk space?
For my backup I keep files in my home directory synced with my NAS via syncthing. For my system backup I don't actually backup up my system, I configure my system via aconfmgr and that config is stored in my home directory and synced to my NAS. Using aconfmgr to "backup" my system is extremely space effecient, my aconfmgr config is only 1.7 MB.
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is there a good way to synchronize the system between different machines?
aconfmgr (in AUR) can be used to save and restore system configurations and installed packages. For user configuration you can use a dotfile manager like chezmoi (in repo).
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Backup of system and package settings
I know you prefer backing up manually, but aconfmgr might be for you.
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What do most people forget to do on a new install that's important?
To get something closer to nix on arch I like to use aconfmgr.
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Is there anything similar to Arch's aconfmgr for Gentoo? A program that can track, manage and restore your Gentoo configuration?
For those who are not familiar with Arch's aconfmgr, well I have not used it before but just saw it in a post. But it seems to be a configuration manager for Arch. It tracks, manages, and restores your Arch Linux OS configuration.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pellets and aconfmgr you can also consider the following projects:
archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer
alis - Arch Linux Install Script (or alis, also known as the Arch Linux executable installation guide and wiki) installs an unattended, automated and customized Arch Linux system.
wslu - A collection of utilities for Windows Subsystem for Linux
pacreport.d - Known ghost files for Arch Linux
pacdef - multi-backend declarative package manager for Linux
neovim-nightly-overlay - [maintainer=@Kranzes]
nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
dotfiles
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git
nix-ld - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
nix-autobahn