Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-26 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:12:38AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > r100 > emerge foo > r101 > emerge --unmerge foo > r102 You're like asking to put your entire system under a versioning system control. Sounds like fun, but also like a lot of diskspace usage on your versioning server. $ ${VCTOOL}

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Better create the list from /var/db/pkg/* , world file only own the file > explicitly merged, leaving out any dependencies (fex libraries). Yes you're right - that is what I did last time I played with this. -- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing li

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Francesco Riosa
A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: > >> - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes >> it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause >> problems. > > You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through > w

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Wernfried Haas wrote: > - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes > it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause > problems. You could also use quickpkg, i.e. write a script that interates through world and runs quickpkg on each

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Jakub Moc
24.1.2006, 19:36:49, Wernfried Haas wrote: > 2 (already implemented) things you may find useful (unless you know > them already of course): > - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes > it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause > problems. > - di

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Wernfried Haas
2 (already implemented) things you may find useful (unless you know them already of course): - adding buildpkg to your FEATURES builds binary packages, which makes it faster to revert to older versions if the new one cause problems. - dispatch-conf does a great job for the configuration files,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Marius Mauch
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:12:38 +0900 Kalin KOZHUHAROV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > During the last many months, more than once an idea occured in my > mind, so I decided to share it. > > > 2006-01-25T01:34 kalin $ dd if=/dev/brain of=gentoo-dev bs=1 > count=3292 > > Do you think it w

[gentoo-dev] RFC: emerge snapshots

2006-01-24 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Hi all. During the last many months, more than once an idea occured in my mind, so I decided to share it. 2006-01-25T01:34 kalin $ dd if=/dev/brain of=gentoo-dev bs=1 count=3292 Do you think it will be good to have something like a snapshot of the installed packages? Something that will help wh