Month: March 2011

Setting up a new mac

I got a new macbook pro. Rather than migrate my settings automatically I decided I’d go for a little spring cleaning by buillding it up from scratch.

Initial setup stuff

  • start software update
  • go through system preferences, add appropriate paranoia
  • open keychain utility, add appropriate paranoia
  • run software update
  • insert Mac OS X CD, install XCode
  • remove all default bookmarks from safari
  • open iTunes, sign in, turn off annoying things like ping
  • download, extract, install, run once, enter serial (where needed)
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
      • set master password
    • Thunderbird
      • set master password
    • Skype
    • OmniGraffle
    • OmniPlan
    • TextMate
    • VMware Fusion
    • Colloquy
    • IntelliJ IDEA; disable most enterpriseish plugins; then open plugin manager and install
      • python plugin
      • ruby plugin
      • I have years of crap in my intellij profile which I’m not adding to this machine
    • VLC
    • Things
  • download stunnel, extract, sudo mkdir /usr/local && sudo chown $USER /usr/local, ./configure --disable-libwrap, make, sudo make install
  • launch terminal, customize terminal settings (font size, window size, window title, backgroundc color) and save as default

Transfer from old mac

  • copy over secure.dmg, mount, set to automount on startup
  • import certs into keychain, firefox, thunderbird
  • set up thunderbird with e-mail accounts
  • copy over ~/.ssh and ~/.subversion
  • set up stunnel for colloquy, run colloquy, add localhost as server, set autojoin channels, change to tabbed interface
  • copy over keychains
  • copy over Office, run office setup assistant
  • copy over documents, data
  • copy over virtual machines
  • open each virtual machine, selecting “I moved it”
  • copy over itunes library
  • plug in, pair and sync ipad and iphone

Backup

  • set up time machine

Development packages

I like to know what is in my /usr/local, so I don’t use MacPorts or fink or anything like it.

  • download and extract pip, python setup.py install
  • pip install virtualenv Django django-piston south django-audit-log django-haystack httplib2 lxml
    • Ah mac 10.6 has a decent libxml2 and libxslt so lxml just installs. What a breeze.
  • download and install 64-bit mysql .dmg from mysql.com, also install preference pane
  • Edit ~/.profile, set CLICOLOR=yes, set PATH, add /usr/local/bin/mysql to path, source ~/.profile
    • again, I have years of accumulated stuf in my bash profile that I’m dumping. It’s amazing how fast bash starts when it doesn’t have to execute a gazillion lines of shell script…
  • code>pip install MySQL-python, install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.16.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/_mysql.so
  • take care of the many dependencies for yum, mostly standard ./configure && make && make install of
    • pkg-config
    • gettext
    • libiconv
    • gettext again, --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local
    • glib, --with-libiconv=gnu
    • popt
    • db-5.1.19.tar.gz, cd build_unix && ../dist/configure --enable-sql && make && make install, cp sql/sqlite3.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/, cd /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/include && mkdir db51 && cd db51 && ln -s ../*.h .
    • neon, ./configure --without-gssapi --with-ssl
    • rpm (5.3), export CPATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/include, sudo mkdir /var/local && sudo chown $USER /var/local, ./configure --with-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1 --with-python --disable-nls --disable-openmp --with-neon=/usr/local && make && make install
    • pip install pysqlite pycurl
    • urlgrabber, sudo mkdir /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/share && chown $USER sudo mkdir /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/share && python setup.py install
    • intltool
    • yum-metadata-parser, export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig; python setup.py install
  • install yum. Yum comes without decent install scripts (the idea is you install it from rpm). I did some hacks to get somewhere reasonable: 
    cat Makefile | sed -E -e 's/.PHONY(.*)/.PHONY\1 install/' > Makefile.new
mv Makefile.new Makefile
cat etc/Makefile | sed -E -e 's/install -D/install/' > etc/Makefile.new
mv etc/Makefile.new etc/Makefile
make DESTDIR=/usr/local PYLIBDIR=/Library/Python/2.6 install
mv /usr/local/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/* /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/
mv /usr/local/usr/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
mkdir /usr/local/sbin
mv /usr/local/usr/sbin/* /usr/local/sbin/
rsync -av /usr/local/usr/share/ /usr/local/share/
rm -Rf /usr/local/usr/
cat /usr/local/bin/yum | sed -E -e 's|/usr/share/yum-cli|/usr/local/share/yum-cli|' > /tmp/yum.new
mv /tmp/yum.new /usr/local/bin
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/yum

That’s how far I got last night, resulting in 86GB of disk use (most of which is VMs and iTunes library), just enough to be productive on my current $work project. I’m sure there’s weeks of tuning in my future.