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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] A few mgorny/ projects for upstream-grabs
From:       Peter Stuge <peter () stuge ! se>
Date:       2015-06-15 21:47:05
Message-ID: 20150615214705.23316.qmail () stuge ! se
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Michał Górny wrote:
> dev-util/atomic-install
> 
>   A nice one -- tool to quasi-atomically install files from $D to live
>   system. The idea is to replace live files as fast as possible,
>   and quickly revert that if it fails in the middle.

I like the idea, but I would personally like to see it expanded to
something eselect-like which leaves "stage" files in place and allows
to quickly swap between different instances, rather than only support
one-shot installation.


//Peter

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