I haven't used it myself, but Puppet <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet>is highly regarded for automating system configuration tasks. Not sure if it's so great for finding the ones that don't match, but it could potentially save you from having to do that work over again once you get it set up. Though, I believe it is aimed more at sysadmins who have lots of systems to deal with, rather than a home user trying to copy a few preferences.
On Nov 29, 2007 10:41 PM, Richard Matthew McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In April, I got a new laptop B to replace the old one A that I had been > using up to that point; A and B run Fedora 6 and 8 respectively. I > would like to retire the Fedora installation on A. I have already > copied off my home directory, /usr/local, and so forth, but A also has > scattered local customizations (modified/added configuration files, > etc.), some of which I might want to repeat on B at some point. I am > looking for a comprehensive way to find all the customized files so I > can save them in a tarball or something to review later. Fedora is > RPM-based, so I am essentially looking for all interesting files (e.g., > most stuff in /var is not interesting) that don't match the set of > installed RPMs. > > How should I go about finding these files? I have been thinking about > writing a powerful RPM verification / customization management tool that > would be able to do this among other things; does such a tool already > exist? I would appreciate any advice. > > Matt > -- Christopher Conroy
