BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not used in stable arch. 2010/7/17 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> > 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 >
