apt: pre-snapshot the booted profile before package changes#111
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DPkg::Pre-Invoke drop-in takes a read-only create-snapshot (tagged apt-<action>) of the booted profile before apt invokes dpkg, filtered to package-changing subcommands. Booted- system guard skips build-time chroot apt; best-effort so a failed snapshot never aborts apt.
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What
Adds a
DPkg::Pre-Invokedrop-in (/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-flipper-snapshot) that takes aread-only btrfs snapshot of the booted profile before apt changes packages, so a bad
install / upgrade / removal can be rolled back with
create-profilefrom the snapshot.How
update/list/search/download) never trigger it.$PPIDis the apt process (the hook runs as itssh -cchild), so its cmdline gives the subcommand; the snapshot is taggedapt-<action>(e.g.@Minimal_<stamp>_apt-install).caseallowlist limits snapshots to package-changing subcommands: install, reinstall, remove, purge, autoremove, upgrade, full-upgrade, dist-upgrade, build-dep, satisfy, dselect-upgrade./run/systemd/system), so build-time (chroot) apt - in both fakemachine and no-fakemachine workers - is skipped.|| true): a failed snapshot never aborts apt. Non-root apt also fails at the dpkg frontend lock before the hook runs, so no snapshot is attempted.Reuses the existing
create-snapshottool; no new scripts. Must be a single line, since apt.conf strings cannot span multiple lines.On-device validation (@minimal, trixie)
Build-time apt is correctly skipped - a freshly built image has no snapshots:
installandpurgeeach produce a tagged snapshot: