pkg snapshot and pkg rollback functionality

[Kai Gallasch]

Am 20.02.2014 um 21:24 schrieb Matthew Seaman:
> On 20/02/2014 11:19, kaltheat wrote:
>> 
>> ---- On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:52:41 +0100 Kai Gallasch<k at free.de> wrote ---- 
>> 
>> ...
>>> I think such a snapshot/rollback option for pkg would be very beneficial, because it would give you the option to "roll back" your pkg to every former frozen state in an orderly manner. Even after you find out a week later that doing an upgrade was not such a splendig idea. 
>>> 
>>> What do you think? 
>>> 
>>> K. 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think this is a good idea making life of administrators much easier.
>> I think it would be best if you create a "feature request" on github[1] to avoid
>> that this idea will pass out of mind.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> kaltheat
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/
> 
> This one already exists and has been in our issues list for quite some
> time...
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew



Matthew, so you are referring to https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/311 ?
It's the only open feature request I found, that comes close to what I am proposing.

BTW:
I wonder why development of a FreeBSD core element like pkg takes place outside the FreeBSD repo environment, where a possible committer must sign up for some account.. Shouldn't the FreeBSD development be self contained on its own infrastructure? I know github is very convenient and easy on the eyes - I see that and no offense intended here for choosing github or prefering a modern SCM tool like mercurial, git or whatever over svn. Maybe it's not really a problem for the majority and I - as a fossil - suffer from oldthink. Just some metathoughts.

Cheers!
K.

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