Bug#880144: snapper: Please provide option to disable apt snapshotting

2018-03-22 Thread Shubham Agarwal
Hello, Snapshots occupy disk space with every upgrade and over time the amount of disk space occupied by the snapshots may become large. To prevent disks from running out of space, Snapper offers algorithms to automatically delete old snapshots. (https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_ s

Bug#880144: snapper: Please provide option to disable apt snapshotting

2018-01-27 Thread James Valleroy
I'm attaching a patch for this change to Pre-Invoke and Post-Invoke scripts: - It sources /etc/default/snapper, if it exists. - If DISABLE_APT_SNAPSHOT is defined and equal to 'yes', then snapshot creation is skipped. Otherwise, continue as normal. Regards, James >From 1806f42bfd169f1c3194a61ae436

Bug#880144: snapper: Please provide option to disable apt snapshotting

2018-01-23 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:05:18 -0400 James Valleroy wrote: > One suggestion is to add a flag ENABLE_APT_SNAPSHOTTING in > /etc/default/snapper. Then /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80snapper could check > the value of this flag. Would this be feasible? Make sense, thank you for your suggestion. But I want sna

Bug#880144: snapper: Please provide option to disable apt snapshotting

2017-10-29 Thread James Valleroy
Source: snapper Severity: wishlist Hello, We are using snapper in FreedomBox, but would like to add more options such as disabling the pre- and post-installation snapshots: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/issues/786 Is there an easy way to enable/disable the apt snapshot feature? One sugge