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I see, my suggestion is partially solved. Would someone mentor me, so I |
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could build a framework like this? |
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Regards Tuxle |
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2013/4/21 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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> On 04/20/2013 08:45 AM, Tuxle T wrote: |
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> > Dear all |
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> > I am Stefan from Switzerland and I am looking for a mentor. |
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> > I currently have been pursuing a BEng in Computer Science at the Zurich |
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> > University of Applied Science. |
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> > I am using Gentoo since 2009 on my server and since 2010 on my Laptop. |
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> > The biggest problem I have ever had with the system was undoing broken |
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> > updates of libpng, poppler or dev-libs/gmp |
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> > So, I have got the following idea: I would setup Gentoo's root on |
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> > `BtrFs` so that `emerge` takes a snaphshot every time something is being |
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> > modified. That way, rollbacks will become easy. |
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> > I am not sure if this is the best solution for everyone, because BtrFs |
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> > is still in development and not always an acceptable choice. |
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> > Nevertheless, I believe that this solution is a great one for developers. |
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> For the past couple of years, I've been doing btrfs snapshots of my root |
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> filesystem for all big updates, and it works very well for me. |
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> In order to go along with the Gentoo's "we're about choice" spirit, you |
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> could create a plugin framework that supports multiple backends for |
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> performing snapshots and doing bootloader configuration. That way, you |
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> could make it work with whatever the user's choice of |
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> filesystem/bootloader combination happens to be. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zac |
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