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Hi all,
I was reading this thread about the possible design of making addons available to opnsense.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=13.0
As the thread was so old I though I'd start a new one here with I think a very valid suggestion. I'm not a programmer or package maintainer just your normal run of the mill Admin.
I think that opnsense should look into is to keeping previous verisions of packages to be available to install.
Sadly with pfsense if you upgrade a package and it kills your whole appliance or the package does not work as expected your are basically done. Their is no roll back facility to the previous package that most likely was still operational.
Additionally if you have not upgraded a package for whatever reason and you re-install or recover your appliance (or wish to roll out multiple appliances) with a backup config you are forced to download the latest package again.
Just my thoughts :)
Cheers
I was reading this thread about the possible design of making addons available to opnsense.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=13.0
As the thread was so old I though I'd start a new one here with I think a very valid suggestion. I'm not a programmer or package maintainer just your normal run of the mill Admin.
I think that opnsense should look into is to keeping previous verisions of packages to be available to install.
Sadly with pfsense if you upgrade a package and it kills your whole appliance or the package does not work as expected your are basically done. Their is no roll back facility to the previous package that most likely was still operational.
Additionally if you have not upgraded a package for whatever reason and you re-install or recover your appliance (or wish to roll out multiple appliances) with a backup config you are forced to download the latest package again.
Just my thoughts :)
Cheers
