salt, getting started (to disable CAPS LOCK and configure basic tools everywhere)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

so I've read qubes-doc.git/configuration/salt.md and wonder, /srv/salt is
installed by the qubes packages and the document says the Qubes salt API is
supposed to change between minor release - so where am I supposed to put
*my* salt config?

Also what best practices / tools exist to maintain this in git in a VM and
then copy it over to dom0?

My actual first "pressing" usecase to use Salt is to disable CAPS LOCK
everywhere… :-)

My second use case would be to deploy the same customisations to basic
tools (eg enable syntax highlighting in vim) everywhere…

Disclaimer: I indeed have basically no clue about salt, not read the upstream
docs yet, just the above document…


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cheers,
Holger

[Holger Levsen]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:38:04PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> so I've read qubes-doc.git/configuration/salt.md and wonder, /srv/salt is
> installed by the qubes packages and the document says the Qubes salt API is
> supposed to change between minor release - so where am I supposed to put
> *my* salt config?
>
> Also what best practices / tools exist to maintain this in git in a VM and
> then copy it over to dom0?
>
> My actual first "pressing" usecase to use Salt is to disable CAPS LOCK
> everywhere… :-)
>
> My second use case would be to deploy the same customisations to basic
> tools (eg enable syntax highlighting in vim) everywhere…

anybody has some ideas? or is noone using salt successfully yet? ;)

also on Debian 8:

$ sudo apt install qubes-mgmt-salt-vm
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qubes-mgmt-salt-vm : Depends: qubes-mgmt-salt but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: qubes-mgmt-salt-vm-python-pip but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


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cheers,
Holger