Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Wyatt Epp wrote: >> >>> Greets, >>> >>> So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things >>> that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. >>> Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show >>> one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that are >>> /not/ myself and my mate noticed that is mildly irritating and >>> disruptive to the Gentoo experience? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Wyatt >>> >> After the mess with my updates yesterday, I wish portage had a undo >> feature. Something like emerge --undo-updates world that puts >> everything back to the way it was before a recent upgrade. Maybe even >> make it so we can set a stable point and return to that. Crap, that >> sounds like something windoze has. o_O I still think it would be a >> cool idea. Sometimes upgrades cause all kinds of issues and need to be >> undone. Going back to a known stable point would be great. >> >> Now someone tell me this exists already. lol They have added so much >> to portage lately I haven't been able to keep up. >> >> > I don't think portage has this option, and I hope it will never. > > Suppose you have to deal with a big upgrade (that icludes glibc) and the > next day you tell portage to rollback... > > I prefer the old way, read the emerge log (or use genlop), and rollback > manually. FEATURES="buildsyspkg" can be helpful when you break mission > critical stuff. > > --- > TopperH > http://topperh.blogspot.com >
In that case, portage can tell you it can't roll back. It could even tell you that before the upgrade. The thing about yesterday, I had no keyboard or mouse. If I hadn't wrote down how to add softlevel=boot on the end of the grub boot line, I have no idea what I would have done at that point. Of course, it would have also been nice if hal had just wrote to a log that it couldn't find the proper driver or whatever for the keyboard and/or mouse then defaulted to the old way. That has to be better than being forced to unplug a computer without a proper shutdown. Just tossing ideas for something more positive in the future. Dale :-) :-)
