From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6371 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2004 02:24:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with SMTP; 3 Jun 2004 02:24:03 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BVhtf-0004y3-Co for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:24:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 24957 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jun 2004 02:23:58 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20275 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2004 02:23:58 +0000 Message-ID: <40BE8B73.3030003@charlies-server.no-ip.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:22:43 -0500 From: Hasan Khalil User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20040602222708.3efc11ef@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040602222708.3efc11ef@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Undo feature in portage-ng ? X-Archives-Salt: 7b514c31-e98e-46ba-b038-810e1d60f41a X-Archives-Hash: 983d294c8b087080199b3fa35e87e99c I am going to begin work (soon) on implementing a system to monitor a given directory for file changes, additions, etc. and perform a user-defined action on the added/changed/etc file immediately. This system could theoretically be used in conjunction with a local CVS repository (a CVS mirror of /etc, for example) to provide the functionality you are looking for, I think. More details can be made available by request either to the list or on a per-person basis; whatever you guys (and girls) want. Aside from that, if the official portage dev team wants to include something like this backup system in future releases of portage (or portage-ng), I'm willing to take a shot at solving this problem. In the last few minutes several thoughts have already come to mind on how to solve this, but I'm still not sure if it's really desirable as a capability of emerge. Let me know, and I'll begin serious brainstorming. -Hasan humbaba@gmx.net wrote: > Hi > I was wandering whether the are plans to implement a kind of undo function in portage-ng or even portage. > It would be very nice to have an option in emerge wich makes portage to record all the changes that are done during an emerge, so you can later undo this changes. > Somthing like: > emerge kde-3.2 --record-changes-in /path/to/file > and when you want get back to the previour version/state of system: > emerge --undo-changes /path/to/file > > I hope this is the right place to ask for such things. When it is not (please let me know), I appolozise. > > Thanks > > -- > gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list