Automating Workstation Setup
I've been hacking at my kernel and breaking my system rather frequently lately setting up a USB3 ROS driver for a new 3D sensor. Aside from perhaps better recovery management, or using VMs, I'd like to find an programmatic way of bootstrapping a ROS environment for my workstation after every time I hose it. I've seen some people use chef cookbooks as means to automate a personalized suppresses, so I think that might be one direction to take.
Does anyone have working examples for quickly setting a Linux system?
Is your question relevant to ROS, Robot Operating System?
Pardon my first edit being too general, but my environment setup is ROS specific.