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david-cortes / snapper-in-debian-guide

Step-by-step guide for configuring Debian with automated BTRFS snapshots and rollbacks from the boot menu
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Could we improve the description of a snapshot? #4

Open lijunle opened 6 months ago

lijunle commented 6 months ago

I see screenshots from some other distro have descriptive description. For example this one:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/1715omb/understanding_btrfs_snapshots_and_snapper/

Is it possible to improve the debian snapper to have better description than "apt"?

imthenachoman commented 6 months ago

I actually wrote something for this. It includes the command in the description. Let me see if I can find it.

imthenachoman commented 6 months ago

Found it: https://gist.github.com/imthenachoman/f722f6d08dfb404fed2a3b2d83263118

david-cortes commented 6 months ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Perhaps you could bring up this issue in Snapper's GitHub: https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper

In the meantime, feel free to make a PR directing the user to the gist from @imthenachoman

imthenachoman commented 6 months ago

@david-cortes It's not a snapper thing. It's a Debian thing. More specifically, it's whatever calls snapper. On Debian systems, dpkg is configured to call Snapper before/after. So changes have to be made to Debian's snapper package. I tried to reach out to that package maintainer but never heard back.

lijunle commented 6 months ago

@imthenachoman This is awesome! Thank you so much for the quick reply!

imthenachoman commented 6 months ago

I submitted a bug report to them (cause I couldn't find any other way).

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041748 is the details. Maybe if someone else replies it will get some traction.