Returned to Debian (stable) because NixOS updates are getting increasingly heavy, so that my ageing Asus N53J laptop can no longer handle them comfortably (latest update locked up my computer for at least an hour). I'm using a simple bash shell script to have somewhat declarative installs.

I have considered to return to Propellor but decided to take a KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach.

Debian install

I've installed stable and kept my partitioning from NixOS. All my data are on a separate encrypted drive, so no changes there.

Configuration files git

My configuration is in a system wide git repository, controlled via an alias.

1alias config='git --git-dir=/.cfg/ --work-tree=/'

The repository under /.cfg was created -- as root -- via:

1cd /
2mkdir .cfg
3cd .cfg
4git init

The git config:

/.cfg/config:

1[core]
2        repositoryformatversion = 0
3        filemode = true
4        bare = false
5        logallrefupdates = true
6        worktree = /
7[status]
8        showUntrackedFiles = no

The showUntrackedFiles prevents showing of all files on the system as 'untracked files'.

My current configation:

 1root@sapientia:/# config ls-files
 2etc/apt/sources.list
 3etc/crypttab
 4etc/fstab
 5etc/pam.d/sshd
 6etc/ssh/sshd_config
 7home/mdo/.bashrc
 8home/mdo/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc0
 9home/mdo/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc1
10home/mdo/.profile
11home/mdo/.tmux.conf
12home/mdo/.vimrc
13home/mdo/.xinitrc
14home/mdo/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
15root/.vimrc
16root/os/os.sh

Declarative install script

The script is on Codeberg: photonsphere/os. It sort of duplicates my earlier Propellor setup.