dotfiles

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REF

• inspired by https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
• (deprecated) brew install mackup https://github.com/lra/mackup, now more used in Linux. on Mac, you need install software by your own needs

HOW TO COOK

• git clone https://github.com/zzuse/dotfiles.git
• Install, brew install rcm
• Run export RCRC="$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc";rcup, all is set!
  It will first link all configurations from dotfiles to home dot dir
  Then automaticlly run hooks/post-up, which is a bunch of installation post scripts.

Installation

For run rcup, you need rcm package first:

Preinstall on a fresh clean OSX system:

RCM is a dotfiles management system. 
This automation script is to install on an fresh clean OSX. 
First you need install Xcode and brew.   
Then you will install as follow steps.  

Install rcm on OSX:

Deprecated: brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
Just: brew install rcm

Install rcm on Ubuntu:

• in case using python3.6 on ubuntu 16.04, you need: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages# ln -s apt_pkg.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so apt_pkg.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
• normally:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martin-frost/thoughtbot-rcm
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install rcm

Install rcm on Centos:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/RHEL_7/utilities.repo
yum install rcm

From source, Like an an old linux machine, my old machine have many openssl problem, so:

wget http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
curl --cacert cacert.pem  -LO https://thoughtbot.github.io/rcm/dist/rcm-1.2.3.tar.gz
tar -xvf rcm-1.2.3.tar.gz && \
cd rcm-1.2.3 && \
./configure && \
make && \
make install

For more about rcm install, please see https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm.

Setup

Setting the RCRC environment variable tells rcup to use standard configuration options.

Install the dotfiles for zsh:

env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup

Install the dotfiles for bash:

export RCRC="$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc"
rcup

You can safely run rcup multiple times to update:

rcup

some sensitive data will add to private git-locations, so export RCRC other values to adapt to private git-locations

Maintaining dotfiles

I can edit files in dotfiles directory, after that I just need to do:

git add XXX
git commit
git push origin master

If I changed through web page, I will sync within terminal:

git pull

Add dotfiles

in my configuration, mkrc command will add dotfiles to dotfiles-local by default, if U want to add to the dotfiles dir, U will run like this:

mkrc -d dotfiles .XXX

then it will symlink the .XXX to dotfiles dir as dotfiles/XXX

Back up OSX APP plist or other files to iCloud (not use anymore, deprecated)

some none dotfiles will use mackup to backup
after install mackup then to add mackup supported apps:

vi ~/.mackup.cfg
[storage]
engine = icloud
[applications_to_sync]
terminal

(deprecated)if an app is not officialy supported by mackup:

$ cat ~/.mackup/nethack.cfg
[application]
 name = Nethack
[configuration_files]
 .nethackrc

(deprecated)some command:

# Install Mackup
brew install mackup
#Copy back any synced config file to its original place.
mackup uninstall
#Display the list of applications supported by Mackup.
mackup list
#help
mackup -h

(deprecated)you may use follow commands more often:

# Launch it and back up your files
mackup backup
# Launch it and restore your files
mackup restore

Backup Apps On OSX

brew bundle dump

LICENSE

MIT