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

Leonid Isaev leonid.isaev at jila.colorado.edu
Tue Feb 2 03:30:56 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 12:16:53AM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks. But /boot can not be snapshot with this, right?

Cheers,
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