[arch-general] btrfs/snapper hook for pacman 5.0?

[Andrew Gregory]

On 02/02/16 at 12:16am, Karol Babioch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 01.02.2016 um 23:30 schrieb Leonid Isaev:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> now with hooks newly introduced to pacman, are there already some useful
> >> btrfs and/or snapper hooks available? At least a quick look-around in
> >> the forums and with Google hasn't revealed anything yet.
> > 
> > What is the goal here?
> 
> To have snapshots before and after pacman did any changes to the
> filesystem (i.e. upgraded packages), so one can easily rollback to a
> known good state in case of an error, and/or look at the difference
> between two snapshots to figure out what might cause an issue.
> 
> You can find more information on snapper here [1]. There are appropriate
> hooks for aptitude and YaST, so I'm now looking into getting this
> functionality with Arch.
> 
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch
> 
> [1]: http://snapper.io/

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