On Montag 13 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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...
or, as I already wrote, he can use dmerge.
