- install a fresh image * use the same user and UID as previous install
Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username.
Yes, sorry - I was being explicit because it's possible that a user chooses a custom UID (as I do). If you use the defaults, then the UID is not something you would need to set manually.
- reboot * rsync my backed-up home dir to my new home dir location. This
brings in all application-specific preferences so I don't have to arrange panels and so on.
<sigh> rsync, or maybe now grsync, is one of those things I keep meaning to get around to learning .... Absent-mindedness gets worse with age ....
rsync -av /path/to/backup/seth/ /home/seth/
- add rpmfusion to yum * do a yum -y update && yum -y install $( <
app.list ) from my app.list file, a newline-delimited list of all the packages I expect to be installed (vlc, ffmpeg, audacity, and so on)
- reboot out of habit (logging out is probably sufficient)
I didn't know yum still worked in Fedora. Is && a command?? Or what? I did use to have an app list -- in my head, unfortunately. As soon as any install finished and I rebooted, I routinely typed out a list of what to delete, then an app list, and then "dnf upgrade."
I typed 'yum' by accident because I run RHEL at work and it still uses yum. I also alias yum to dnf on Fedora, so I'm doubly confused :)
The && means "if the previous command exits without error, then do...". It is literal; you can type one command, and then && followed by a second command; as long as the first doesn't fail, the second runs afterwards.
Are you really saying you can have two different programs both installing things at once??
My rsync command is mostly just copying my personal data. I guess there's a chance of yum trying to install something to ~/.local or ~/.config and conflicting with what rsync is attempting to copy over, but if so I have yet to encounter (or notice?) it.