On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package management framework, not work around it.
I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.
As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR. It will be implemented in one or more of about three ways:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395
You must be using btrfs for / of course.
So, that's not something that would work within the package management framework, is it?
no, it would not. it requires you to manually run the proper command prior to upgrading. it could be automated by either a pacman hook, or putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman. there has been some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk. at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem, and will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root. the next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper). C Anthony