The problem with automation

[kevin11951]

I have found a problem with automation!

After re-installing Ubuntu (I do it every so often, not sure why) I have lost all my automated scripts I had running at various points in the day, and now my whole world is upside down!

Ok, maybe not an argument against automation, but an argument about making sure I record them all to a file or something. ;)

[NoaHall]

No, it means you're bad at planning ahead. ;)

I have all my scripts in a "scripts" folder. Then when I install, I also have a script to run, which will set up those scripts for automation.

[kevin11951]

No, it means you're bad at planning ahead.

did you even read the last line?

especially notice the: ";)"

[NoaHall]

did you even read the last line?

especially notice the: ";)"

Indeed I did, but my point is still valid :)

(Notice the ":)")

[matthew.ball]

Doesn't a separate /home partition solve this problem?

I have a bunch of backup/restore scripts (just export/import list of packages, sources.list and fstab) which I've been using since Intrepid.

Unfortunately I haven't quite automated the sources.list entirely (still have to manually update the repos to point to the correct version), but I haven't had to rewrite the entire scripts.