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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:19:15 +0100
From: kaltheat <kaltheat@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: pkg snapshot and pkg rollback functionality
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---- On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:52:41 +0100 Kai Gallasch<k@free.de> wrote ---- 

...
 > I think such a snapshot/rollback option for pkg would be very beneficial, because it would give you the option to "roll back" your pkg to every former frozen state in an orderly manner. Even after you find out a week later that doing an upgrade was not such a splendig idea. 
 >  
 > What do you think? 
 >  
 > K. 

Hi,

I think this is a good idea making life of administrators much easier.
I think it would be best if you create a "feature request" on github[1] to avoid
that this idea will pass out of mind.

Regards,
kaltheat

[1] https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/