From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Implementing guix system rollback / switch-generation Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 08:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20160606121001.GA17813@jasmine> References: <87wpm3qngd.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9tMP-0004KB-8I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:10:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9tMK-0005Cs-4p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:10:24 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:38386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9tMI-0005C2-0K for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:10:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpm3qngd.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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.