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Snapper

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Package: Addition Request Priority: Wishlist State: Approved State: Needs Maintainer
Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Description

Please confirm there isn't an existing package request
  • I have searched through package requests
Homepage

http://snapper.io/

Maintainer
  • Would you like to be the maintainer for this package?
Why should this be included in the repository?

becasue we have btrfs. no good to anyone without a rollback feature

Are we allowed to redistribute it?

GPL-2.0

What kind of user will use this package, and how many users do you think will use this package?

all users

Link to source archive file

https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.6.tar.gz

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the linked openSUSE/snapper v0.5.6 source archive and inspect existing package definitions in the Solus packages repository for the expected packaging conventions. Confirm the package builds and installs correctly, and that the resulting package provides Snapper for the repository's btrfs rollback use case.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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