system restore for ubuntu -- few ideas.

[Kent Nyberg]

ons 2005-05-18 klockan 15:27 -0400 skrev Michael Beattie:
> On 5/18/05, Mircea MITU <mmitu at bitdefender.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:39 +0200, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Robert Jameson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was thinking today about the possibility to make it so users can
> > > > restore back to a previous state -- this could be done using some
> > > > tracking information in dpkg and apt-get & synaptic.
> > >
> > > My first question about this proposal is:
> > >
> > > Why would you want system state tracking in Ubuntu?
> > 
> > 1. Because "shit happens" (tm)
> > 2. What if I hit a very special bug which screws-up glibc or dpkg/apt
> > completely?
> 
> can always use
> 
> apt-get install libc6=[version]


Thats the first thing my father would try aswell.  ;)

For real problems i guess something at boot like
"Recover system" that brings the system back to either the way it was on
installation or from a saved state would be nice.
Perhaps it should be possible to be done from a bootable CD aswell since
sometimes systems get screwed up totally. Sort
of like, when the user who messed up his/hers system tries to re-install
the system (since i think that is what most will do) the CD will give
them the option to restore an already installed system back to default.

Perhaps synaptic could have an option for something like this aswell,
but if it is problems with the glibc, dpkg/apt then synaptic might not
work :(

Just guessing wildly though.


-- 
Kent Nyberg <nyberg.kent at spray.se>
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