Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

[Evan]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2009/5/25 Christopher James Halse Rogers <raof at ubuntu.com>:
> > Having some sort of "roll back to previous package version" button might
> > be a nice idea, though it would need to be designed in such a way that
> > made it clear there was no guarantee that it'd work.  I'm not sure
> > whether we'd be doing users a favour here.
> >
>
> There is a technology to do this but it's not GPL...
>
> OpenSolaris and Nexetra use ZFS which supports snapshots. Before each
> package installation transaction (i.e. one upgrade of N packages) they
> take a snapshot of a system, do the upgrade. If the user doesn't like
> it, they can rollback to any of the previous snapshots because they
> are available.
>
> Nexetra for that wrote apt-clone (I think) to actually do it.
>
> Unfortunatly there isn't a GPL filesystem which supports continous
> snapshots.....


Will Btrfs do this when it is stable?
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