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Can I get a list of all the tweaks I've made to my system over the years? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it possible to get a list of all the various tweaks I've made to my system? Over the years I've probably installed and uninstalled a bunch of apps, tweaked and untweaked a bunch of configuration settings, ran a bunch of scripts that did god knows what to my system. To be fair, it's probably my fault for not writing them all down.

However can I somehow figure out how different my system is from a clean install? For example my system didn't come with any swap space so I added some. I remember doing that recently. However suppose I forgot that I did that (because it might have been a long time ago) how would I have rediscovered that and other changes I might have made to the system?

Thanks 👍.

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[–] nop 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always put etckeeper on my hosts as an early step. Not quite what you are asking for, but most config is represented in /etc, so having that saved in git is quite a treat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've never heard of this but did a quick search on how it works. What a great little tool!

I'll definitely start using this from how on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This problem is one of the reasons I fell in love with declarative configuration. It's all there.