This is my attempt at following the configuration architecture discussed at http://furius.ca/projects/doc/conf.html.
If you want to use this repository, be sure to run git submodule update --init after checking it out to get the submodules.
- Wanting to support multiple platforms (different versions of Ubuntu, OS X, and (if I make poor life choices) Windows (Cygwin)) using common tools. There are certain portions of configurations that are common, and others that are specific to different platforms and different hosts.
- The need to make changes on one platform and optionally have them impact other platforms.
- Easy and quick syncing.
- Version control.
At the moment, I have high-level scripts that I symlink to from ~ in to_symlink, based on host. The rest gets taken care of more or less like the aforementioned article suggests. I don't really have a need for site-specific files. I could see transitioning some of the servers that I have to this scheme. Basically I just want to DRY up my configuration, and this seems like one way to do it. I could use some sort of rsync scripting system, or even polished configuration management systems, but it seems like my requirements are beyond what these can do.
Improvement ideas:
- Change common/bin to have common/bin/vendor and put all scripts that I just randomly downloaded from somewhere there.
- Improve readme, since it is super old and not really relevant any more. Could include bootstrapping instructions, etc.
- Add some links to scripts that I use frequently