List currently-installed packages
sysres should be able to also keep track of which packages are installed, and automatically ignore packages that are autoinstalled or in an exclude list (if sysres were run on a new install, it would be useful to exclude all packages currently installed, except sysres). The list of all installed packages is in /var/lib/
I have some code for this already (I originally planned to start a separate project). It'd have to be re-worked to fit here, but it can already parse the relevant files and return a list of files. That's the majority of the work, I think.
Existing solutions are inadequare, IMO: One proposal in the sysres thread was written in C, which adds compatibility issues with this program, and a cursory glance at suggested that it worked as a daemon, which is totally unnecessary. LaRoza's package backup script is a shell script using zenity, which would be difficult to integrate into sysres. Furthermore, it doesn't skip auto-installed packages.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- LaRoza
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Scott Severance
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Not started
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(LaRoza) It sounds like a good idea. If you can get it to work with current trunk that would be best. It would, in my mind, work only for custom restore points which aren't hidden. I think it should also be separate from the function and a completely different option.
To have this part of sysres it has to be simple. I don't want two programs pushed into one (avoid feature creep).
For this, it can be in SystemRestore/, but I suggest its own namespace. clip.py should have the basic interface for it.
