Allow install hook to add auto-incrementing hooks

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It would be great if the install hook auto-incremented the restore point ids, that way they don’t overwrite each other when full upgrades are performed.

Describe the solution you’d like After installing the pacman install hook, the first pacman -Syu should create restore point #00, and the next #01, and so on…

This would mean that we’d create a “history” of restore points correlated to full upgrades, and would be invaluable when trying to roll back full upgrades that previously occurred.

[JustinTimperio]

Hey archeronfail,

Just wanted to give you an update here. I really like the concept you put forth. Unfortunately, I realized my Alpha code had become

The concept, design, and features have changed so drastically, a major overhaul was in order.

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This has inspired me to rewrite pretty much the whole thing for a proper beta release. Since I am not a huge OOP fan, I’m going with a more functional/pythonic approach using dictionaries to pass variables through my functions. This should result in a much cleaner codebase and a lot of flexibility/abstraction in the future without hurting performance.

Not sure when I will finish this but hopefully once I’m done unraveling my own spagett, I’ll get something workable merged into the master.

[JustinTimperio]

Hey acheronfail, Thanks for the suggestion and fork. This is something that I actually started in my dev branch. I have created a separate restore point type called snapshots, which auto-increment up to a user-defined count. This feature leaves restore points open for users store RP’s as they wish, while still maintaining a catalog of each change made to the system. I got stuck working on session management though and haven’t really touched it in a while. I’ll definitely take a look at what you have done and see if I can integrate it into my dev branch. Wasn’t honestly sure anyone was using this lol