On Aug 3, 2011 11:44 AM, "Brad Alexander" <storm16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was actually going to recommend having a separate set of partitions, and then sharing non-system partitions. The problem will become keeping them synced.
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I was thinking he was asking about build, test, and deploy applications. In such environments, keeping track of what happened where is needed but as long as someone stays on top of it, it isn't a big deal.
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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:35 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 3, 2011 11:22 AM, "Sthu Deus" <sthu.deus@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > As it is VERY hard to low versions of the installed packages, how do
>> > You return Your system to some exact state after You have tried new
>> > versions of pckages?
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>> Me? I use virtualbox (or other vm) and snapshots. If you want something closer to metal, lvm has similar.
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>> > What I would do is to copy whole the system, then delete the current
>> > and copy it back in archive mode of cp, reinstall/update grub as
>> > necessary...
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>> This works fine. Though, I'd just dd.
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