mahmoudimus / dotfiles

The best damn dot files repository ever.

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dotfiles

My attempt at a reproducible workstation environment for my computers, mostly on a OSX.

Install

1. Install Dropbox
2. Configure Dropbox. Sync only the folder called: Mackup, which stores the various encrypted secrets. (See TODO).
3. Run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/mahmoudimus/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule update --init --recursive

NOTE: The ~/dotfiles is hardcoded as the dotfiles repository path in this project. Let me know if this is a problem.

Bootstraping

To bootstrap a workstation, execute setup.sh which will install Ansible on the system, alongside all the below requirements.

If you're on OSX, setup.sh will also install xcode and the xcode command-line utilities.

Requirements

These requirements will be installed by themselves.

• ansible 1.8
• homebrew-brewdler
• mackup

Ansible Playbook?

Yes. This is an OS-aware ansible playbook composed of roles that install the applications required for setting up the workstation.

Here's how to run this ansible playbook:

ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False ansible-playbook  -i 127.0.0.1, -vvvv -b --become-method=sudo -K --connection=local setup.yml

After you're done, run mackup restore. Done :-)

References

Github

• https://osxc.github.io/
• https://github.com/peterhajas/dotfiles
• https://github.com/palcu/dotfiles
• https://github.com/danieljaouen/ansible-dotfiles
• https://github.com/spencergibb/battleschool
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
• https://github.com/joshingly/dotfiles
• https://github.com/tmaeda1981jp/dotfiles
• https://github.com/hanjianwei/dotfiles
• https://github.com/daniruiz/dotfiles
• https://github.com/muchzill4/setup

Similar Projects (?)

• https://github.com/jverdeyen/macplan
• https://github.com/searls/icloud-dotfiles

Blogs

• http://il.luminat.us/blog/2014/04/19/how-i-fully-automated-os-x-with-ansible/
• http://www.eightbitraptor.com/post/bootstrapping-osx-ansible
• https://dotfiles.github.io/

TODO

• This is only for a workstation, what about dotfiles for sysadmining?
• Submit to iusethis and howistart?
• Explore GNU stow?
  • Explore dotgpg with GNU stow instead of Mackup.

Bugs

• Mackup traverses symlinks, some of which are linked to the Desktop, Downloads, etc and that can potentially cause huge disk space issues

dotfiles's Issues

Switch to homebrew-file

https://github.com/rcmdnk/homebrew-file instead of brewdler

unison macosx installation

• http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/index.html
• Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#37378

Add Skim

skim-app.sourceforge.net

Add Divvy

Divvy

Add Evernote

fixes

• zsh installer scripts (run setup.zsh!)
• install spacemacs in .emacs.d and link the files/emacs.d to .spacemacs
• link iterm scripts
• fix the osx defaults script that ansible uses to install
• bartender setup
• fonts
• intellij settings restoration
• karabiner settings
• setapp installation
• dropbox
• clone bin
• chmod .tmux directories

brewfile additions:

• virtualenvwrapper
• mitmproxy
• brew install ripgrep
• brew install fd
• brew install bat
• brew install exa
• brew install nodenv pyenv rbenv jenv direnv
• brew install direnv
• brew install google-java-format
• brew install emacs-mac --HEAD --with-modules --with-spacemacs-icon --with-jansson --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick --with-starter

brewfile cask additions:

• brew cask install nomachine
• brew cask install font-meslo-for-powerline font-meslo-lg font-meslolg-nerd-font
• brew tap mdogan/zulu && brew cask install zulu-jdk11
• brew cask install gpg-suite-no-mail
• brew cask install amethyst
• brew install findutils
• brew cask install virtualbox
• brew cask link google-chrome
• brew cask install visual-studio-code-insiders
• brew cask install graalvm/tap/graalvm-ce-java11
• brew cask install graalvm/tap/graalvm-ce-lts-java11
• brew cask install gcc
• brew cask install cmake
• brew cask install gpg-suite-no-mail
• brew cask install amethyst
• brew cask install zulu-jdk11
• brew cask install zulu-jdk8
• brew cask install vlc
• brew cask install adoptopenjdk8
• brew cask install adoptopenjdk14
• brew cask install adoptopenjdk15
• brew cask install font-recursive

# add prezto contrib to presto zsh
cd $ZPREZTODIR
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/belak/prezto-contrib contrib

emacs-mac

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Issues when bootstrapping from a fresh run

• I installed Dropbox first, but I had to remember to selectively sync the Mackup folder
• I had to install Xcode manually to get git to even bootstrap
• When cloning this repository, the submodules failed to clone for emacs.d and zsh
• After I installed Xcode, the system continued to bootstrap correctly up until it tried to source the zsh/emacs (since they failed to clone)
• I ran mackup restore which overrode a bunch of files (which is fine)
• Since I had the proper ssh keys now (after the mackup restore), the emacs.d and zsh submodules cloned properly
• I then re-ran the ansible bootstrapping script, which finished correctly (but failed one the emacs.d step)
• The shell had some issues, which is that the .zshenv file failed to be linked successful, since we seem to be overriding it in this playbook.

install virtualenvwrapper