Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : apt-clone Version : 0.7.9nexenta28 * URL : see below * License : CDDL Programming Lang: Perl Description : ZFS integrated APT package handling utility
apt-clone is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "front-end" to the apt-get(8). It manages GRUB menu and ZFS 'syspool' filesystems. Two upgrade methods supported: 1) safe upgrades via cloning a currently active filesystem and later chrooting into it to perform actual upgrade operation; 2) in-place (live) upgrades by checkpointing a currently active filesystem prior to any upgrade modifications done by apt-get utility. The live upgrading, as the name implies, happens in-place on the running system, and without reboot. Unless the safe -s option is explicitly specified, the system will automatically detect whether the upgrade will require reboot, and if so, it will clone the active filesystem and safely perform the software upgrade within this ZFS clone. A user then has two options: reboot into the new (upgraded) system folder or continue working (and possibly activate the upgrade and reboot into it later). apt-clone may be obtained from Nexenta APT repository. It is shipped as part of the apt package: http://apt.nexenta.org/dists/hardy-unstable/main/source/admin/apt_0.7.9nexenta28.dsc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
