On Friday 10 April 2009 15:35:23 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.
ZFS can do that, so can lvm snapshots. But, they roll back everything, not just what portage did :-) You can roll back manually, by examining genlop and fiddling with package.mask... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
