On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> >> Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package management >> >> framework, not work around it. >> > >> > I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's >> > in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it. >> > >> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks >> >> As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the >> mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR. It will be implemented in one or more >> of about three ways: >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395 >> >> You must be using btrfs for / of course. > > So, that's not something that would work within the package management > framework, is it? no, it would not. it requires you to manually run the proper command prior to upgrading. it could be automated by either a pacman hook, or putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman. there has been some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk. at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem, and will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root. the next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper). C Anthony
