Dotfiles and Boxen

[kevinSuttle]

What is the recommended practice for this? I think most of us have them symlinked from git to ~/. Do you suggest symlinking them to 'opt/boxen/config/git' etc, or just letting the two live separate lives?

[kevinSuttle]

I should note the first time I loaded up Zsh after I installed Boxen, I got this error:

/Users/kevinsuttle/Code/dotfiles/zsh/colors.zsh:source:10: no such file or directory: /opt/boxen/homebrew/etc/grc.bashrc

I know what this is doing, just giving an example.
See: https://github.com/kevinSuttle/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/.bashrc

[wfarr]

There are a few approaches to this. The most Puppet-centric way to do it, would be to let Puppet setup symlinks into your dotfiles repo:

$home = "/Users/${::boxen_user}"
$dotfiles_dir = "${boxen::config::srcdir}/dotfiles"

repository { $dotfiles_dir:
  source => "${::github_user}/dotfiles"
}

file { "${home}/.zshrc":
  ensure  => link,
  target  => "${dotfiles_dir}/.zshrc",
  require => Repository[$dotfiles_dir]
}

Another approach is some folks have a shell script that does all their "install" for dotfiles, and just have Puppet invoke that if appropriate:

$home = "/Users/${::boxen_user}"
$dotfiles_dir = "${boxen::config::srcdir}/dotfiles"

repository { $dotfiles_dir:
  source => "${::github_user}/dotfiles"
}

exec { "install dotfiles":
  cwd      => $dotfiles_dir,
  command  => "./install.sh",
  provider => shell,
  creates  => "${home}/.zshrc",
  require  => Repository[$dotfiles_dir]
}

Both are valid, IMO, so choose the path you prefer.

As for the grc load error, my guess is you need to add a package { 'grc': } that comes before your dotfiles install. You can make the bashrc itself a little more robust and let it degrade gracefully as well:

[ -f `brew --prefix`/etc/grc.bashrc ] && source `brew --prefix`/etc/grc.bashrc

[kevinSuttle]

I think I owe you at least a few beers now @wfarr.

[kevinSuttle]

I've found that I don't need to do much after boxen is installed (I run zsh from Homebrew). As long as my Terminal knows where zsh is, then my dotfiles seem to be fine.

[kevinSuttle]

So, this ties in to #109, because brew --prefix always returns usr/local.

☰  `brew --prefix`/opt/boxen/homebrew/etc/grc.bashrc
zsh: no such file or directory: /usr/local/opt/boxen/homebrew/etc/grc.bashrc

So, for now, I've just dropped the brew --prefix in my colors.zsh

[ -f /opt/boxen/homebrew/etc/grc.bashrc ] &&  source /opt/boxen/homebrew/etc/grc.bashrc

Seems to work fine.