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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago

Given that I want to switch back to ext4, i need to also reinstall.

I went through manually installed RPM packages, narrowed the list down to 41 most critical, and here’s what I ended up with:

aerc bat bison ccache clang cmake expect fatcat flex fzf gcc github-cli gh git gnupg hatch hyperfine irssi mc mediainfo meson mmv msmtp ncdu neovim openssl pam-u2f pass patch pwgen qemu ranger rclone ripgrep sha3sum socat strace tealdeer w3m zig zola zoxide zsh

These are mapped to Arch Linux package names. I’ll install that distribution because I can just pass that list to archinstall be back in online maybe about ~2h :-)

It goes like this:

  1. Install Arch Linux to VM and use archinstall for this.
  2. Export json.
  3. [Backup json too.]
  4. On bare metal boot from stick and pass that json to the installer and shit will just happen!

Now that I anyway have to reinstall I found out about how this works and it plain just make sense to me…

EDIT: actually 42 packages, gnupg was missing, well anyway…

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@ikkeT not really, i update to get ext4 back mainly. arch makes sense because it is not a product so no big "drop support". that's exactly why I decided to change the distribution.
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@ikkeT this whole immutability is overrated imho. get in the context of data center but not in the context of my lab desktop :-)

modern example of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
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