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abroot — Utility providing full immutability and atomicity by transacting between 2 root partition states (A⟺

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Problem

How to use the abroot command: Utility providing full immutability and atomicity by transacting between 2 root partition states (A⟺B). Updates are performed using OCI images, to ensure that the system is always in a consistent state. More information: <https://docs.vanillaos.org/docs/en/abroot-manpage>.

Solution

abroot — Utility providing full immutability and atomicity by transacting between 2 root partition states (A⟺B). Updates are performed using OCI images, to ensure that the system is always in a consistent state. More information: <https://docs.vanillaos.org/docs/en/abroot-manpage>.

Add packages to the local image (Note: After executing this command, you need to apply these changes.):

sudo abroot pkg add {{package}}

Remove packages from the local image (Note: After executing this command, you need to apply these changes.):

sudo abroot pkg remove {{package}}

List packages in the local image:

sudo abroot pkg list

Apply changes in the local image (Note: You need to reboot your system for these changes to be applied):

sudo abroot pkg apply

Rollback your system to previous state:

sudo abroot rollback

Edit/View kernel parameters:

sudo abroot kargs {{edit|show}}

Display status:

sudo abroot status

Display help:

abroot {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Add packages to the local image (Note: After executing this command, you need to apply these changes.)

sudo abroot pkg add {{package}}

Remove packages from the local image (Note: After executing this command, you need to apply these changes.)

sudo abroot pkg remove {{package}}

List packages in the local image

sudo abroot pkg list

Apply changes in the local image (Note: You need to reboot your system for these changes to be applied)

sudo abroot pkg apply

Rollback your system to previous state

sudo abroot rollback

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