No description when using pamac

[aardbol]

Love the idea of your snap-pac script!

But I wanted to know, is it possible if you could add the feature of adding the package name to the name of the snapshot instead of only a static string?

[wesbarnett]

It's doable, but sometimes updates have several packages, which wouldn't fit into the description.

[aardbol]

Can't you get the name of the main package + the number of the dependencies that are installed together with it then?

As far as installing multiple software at the same time which are unrelated, a snap is made for each installation, so that isn't what you meant right?

In any case, this improvement would be awesome. And so would you, although you already are for creating this tool

[wesbarnett]

A snapshot is not created for each individual package when upgrading. A pre and post snapshot are created for each pacman transaction, which can be multiple packages. The description should already contain the package names for installing a package. For example, if I install "nano" the snapper description is "pacman -S nano". Are you wanting the package names for upgrading too (which currently only has a description of "pacman -Syu").

[aardbol]

Neither when I install or upgrade a description is added to the snapper snapshot list. The only information that is added is that it uses the timeline mechanism and whether it's a pre or post snapshot. Ideally the mentioned information should be added both when installing and upgrading packages.

This is my experience using pamac

[wesbarnett]

What distibution are you using? Do you get descriptions when using "pacman" manually? What version of snap-pac do you have installed?

[aardbol]

Yes I get description of the packages. Even when I go into Detailed more of pamac, then it displays the output of pacman.

Version 1.1 And Antergos Linux

[wesbarnett]

What's the output of sudo snapper -c root list -t pre-post?

[aardbol]

https://image.tf/show/VFiQ9tJW1UEwm6Ic

[wesbarnett]

That description is not in my source code anywhere. I'm thinking it may have been added downstream by Antergos or they are using a fork of the project. Can you post the contents of `/etc/snapper/configs/root?

[aardbol]

Antergos is like Arch, they don't add modify packages and provide pure upstream. The description was customised by my with these lines: PACMAN_PRE_DESCRIPTION and PACMAN_POST_DESCRIPTION because if I don't do that, the descriptions remain empty

[wesbarnett]

Gotcha. I don't use pamac, but I tested it out. Here's what I get when the description is not overidden:

7775  | 7776   | Fri 25 Aug 2017 08:57:49 PM EDT | Fri 25 Aug 2017 08:57:51 PM EDT | /usr/bin/pamac-system-daemon                        |

If I use pacman here is an example description:

7777  | 7778   | Fri 25 Aug 2017 08:59:56 PM EDT | Fri 25 Aug 2017 08:59:57 PM EDT | pacman -S nano                                      |

The hook in this package is just a bash script and uses ps to find out what the parent process of the script is (usually pacman, even with AUR helpers, fontends, etc). It looks like the actual package handling for pamac is all internal, and so this script is unable to access whatever pamac-system-daemon is doing.

[aardbol]

I see. It's unfortunate that it's not compatible with pamac :(