Using snapper for OfflineSystemUpdates

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/14/2012 03:53 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates we've
> implemented doing the package updates at first-boot time. This makes a
> lot of the hard-to-fix problems a lot easier. The question then
> becomes, how do we make the OS Update process even smarter? A simple
> check would be to see if X started after doing an upgrade, and if it
> failed, to rollback to the disk snapshot or / (and /boot?) that we
> previously knew worked.
>
> Do do this we can currently use anything-on-lvm, or btrfs and quite a
> bit of shell-foo. I'm quite keen on no adding lots of tricky code to
> PackageKit to deal with all this complexity, so what about using
> snapper? See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper for more details.
>
> It's an OpenSuse project, and other than a small patch I've sent
> upstream to get things compiling on Fedora it looks pretty small,
> self-contained and sane.
>
> Does anybody have any better ideas than snapper? I really don't want
> to roll my own on this one unless there's a good reason.
>
> Richard.

You mean the snapper which is stuck in review #852174  :)

JBG