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From: Tuxle T <tuxle@××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Application for SoC as a Student
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:16:17
Message-Id: CAGuhdZ1kLGsqyBdGsvdQd4o1X7LPo0YC3=b3VtOJw7G1pqK7nQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] Application for SoC as a Student by Zac Medico
1 I see, my suggestion is partially solved. Would someone mentor me, so I
2 could build a framework like this?
3
4 Regards Tuxle
5
6
7 2013/4/21 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
8
9 > On 04/20/2013 08:45 AM, Tuxle T wrote:
10 > > Dear all
11 > >
12 > > I am Stefan from Switzerland and I am looking for a mentor.
13 > > I currently have been pursuing a BEng in Computer Science at the Zurich
14 > > University of Applied Science.
15 > >
16 > > I am using Gentoo since 2009 on my server and since 2010 on my Laptop.
17 > > The biggest problem I have ever had with the system was undoing broken
18 > > updates of libpng, poppler or dev-libs/gmp
19 > > So, I have got the following idea: I would setup Gentoo's root on
20 > > `BtrFs` so that `emerge` takes a snaphshot every time something is being
21 > > modified. That way, rollbacks will become easy.
22 > > I am not sure if this is the best solution for everyone, because BtrFs
23 > > is still in development and not always an acceptable choice.
24 > > Nevertheless, I believe that this solution is a great one for developers.
25 >
26 > For the past couple of years, I've been doing btrfs snapshots of my root
27 > filesystem for all big updates, and it works very well for me.
28 >
29 > In order to go along with the Gentoo's "we're about choice" spirit, you
30 > could create a plugin framework that supports multiple backends for
31 > performing snapshots and doing bootloader configuration. That way, you
32 > could make it work with whatever the user's choice of
33 > filesystem/bootloader combination happens to be.
34 > --
35 > Thanks,
36 > Zac
37 >
38 >

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Re: [gentoo-soc] Application for SoC as a Student Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>