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A configuration manager for Arch Linux

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2016-08-22 · latest 2026-06-29

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  1. https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr Aconfmgr is a good solution (practical trade-off for me). When it feel like "my OS must be dirty at this point", then I spend a couple minutes with this and I'm back to the clean state. I don't do…
    comment by kmarc · 2026-06-29 · in NixOS 26.05
  2. aconfmgr[ https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr ] is a kinda similar project for pacman-based distributions. The difference is that it strives to track all non-user files, (not just packages, and especially /etc), but you can adopt it…
    comment by letmeinhere · 2026-01-29 · in Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt
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    Aconfmgr: A configuration manager for Arch LinuxScore
    story by namanyayg · 2024-08-08 · 0 comments
  4. …staging environment. My (Arch) GNOME desktop broke much more frequently during that time. [1] https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr [2] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Changel... , first item [3]…
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-11-02 · in Has Rakuten made a Rocky-er road for Red Hat?
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    Aconfmgr: A configuration manager for Arch Linux
    story by michaelmdresser · 2022-01-24 · 0 comments
  6. …completely shaft my setup and not be able to roll back. Here is my attempt at solving this problem: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
    comment by CyberShadow · 2022-01-24 · in The Curse of NixOS
  7. …e.g. a package manager) and later transcribe those edits to the configuration (or revert them). https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
    comment by CyberShadow · 2020-11-08 · in One Week of NixOS
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    Aconfmgr: A configuration manager for Arch Linux
    story by jasonhansel · 2018-01-05 · 0 comments
  9. If you're using Arch Linux now, you may find this project useful: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr
    comment by CyberShadow · 2017-10-16 · in What is Nix and why you should try it
  10. I created something similar for Arch Linux: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr It has a few crucial differences from typical configuration managers, though, as it allows transcribing the system state back into your configuration.
    comment by CyberShadow · 2017-06-09 · in Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts
  11. Not sure if I'm reinventing the wheel, but incidentally I've been working on this lately: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr It's like basic traditional configuration management, but it's two-way: it takes the difference between the…
    comment by CyberShadow · 2016-08-22 · in Reflections on NixOS