From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Implementing guix system rollback / switch-generation
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 08:10:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160606121001.GA17813@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpm3qngd.fsf@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:29:22PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> More generally, are people satisfied with the way system rollback is
> currently implemented in GuixSD? Do you think that the mechanism I'm
> proposing is a bad idea? I'd hate to try to implement something that
> nobody else thinks is needed.
I roll back from the GRUB menu if I've totally broken the system.
Otherwise, I use Git to manage the system configuration and roll back by
checkout out an earlier commit.
But, I think we should be able to switch to arbitrary system generations
and delete generations with the Guix tools.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-06 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-05 22:29 Implementing guix system rollback / switch-generation Chris Marusich
2016-06-06 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-09 7:19 ` Chris Marusich
2016-06-12 16:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-13 9:21 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-06-13 15:00 ` Atomic file updates Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-06 12:10 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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