On 11/22/2011 02:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
I using testing / staging repos does this already: you try out [testing], if it doesn't work, you disable it and run 'pacman -Suu'. Would using different sync dbs and a separate cache turned into a local repo make it easy enough to be practical?
Also, pacsnap[1] does a good enough job for me. Which is to take maybe 70% of the risk out of upgrading -- sure, a reversion won't work all the time, but I need it rarely enough that the low overhead of pacsnap is more convenient for me than the risk of living with a partly-broken system until it's fixed upstream is bad.
That being said, if someone polishes btrfs snapshots, I might use that instead. (Once I switch to btrfs, that is.)
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34290
