Patcon's Workstation

Inspired by Pivotal Labs' workstation management efforts, I'm attempting to get my system configuration captured in Chef recipes, so that I'm always only an hour away from a fresh system when something goes awry.

Requirements

• Xcode Download

We no longer recommend the osx-gcc-installer from GitHub, as it lacks some proprietary Apple headers and tools that will result in many Homebrew packages failing to compile.

Tested on Snow Leopard with Xcode 4.2 downloaded from this torrent.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/patcon/patcon_workstation.git
cd patcon_workstation
gem install bundler
bundle install
gem regenerate_binstubs
librarian-chef install
soloist

Known Issues

• Seems to be an unresolved issue with zip_app for Colloquy. Fails with this while unzipping:

  STDERR: replace __MACOSX/Colloquy.app/Contents/Resources/._verbs.plist? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:  NULL
  

To Do

• Investigate how Apple Orchard CI can help later.
• Fix Kaspersky install process (Google Drive URL with attr).
• Host Xcode installers?
• Add recipes for the following:
  • Balsamiq Mockups
  • Boxee
  • Google Cloud Printer
  • Emacs
  • Filezilla
  • Grooveshark
  • GSDesktopHelper
  • LibreOffice
  • RightZoom
  • Total Terminal
  • TweetDesk
  • UnRarX
  • Wireshark
  • Yammer