I created user state directories by running qubesctl state.sls qubes.user-dirs
per the community Qubes Salt Beginner's Guide.
The correspondence between this repository and my dom0 filesystem is:
- salt: contents of
/srv/user_salt/ - policy.d: additions to
/etc/qubes/policy.d/
I apply states by running commands like
qubesctl state.highstate # configure everything in dom0
qubesctl state.highstate test=True # only dry-run changes
qubesctl --targets=web-dvm state.highstate # additionally configure inside web-dvm
qubesctl --targets=web-dvm --skip-dom0 state.highstate # fix something in web-dvm without touching dom0