Question Snapshots

[starflighter]

Hi,
is it possible to take and edit aptly-snapshots in this web-ui?
That would be great :-)

Thanks
Yvonne

[sdumetz]

Nope. This UI is currently not snapshot-aware. It's definitely something I'd like to add though.

[starflighter]

That would be awsome!
If I can help, just say it. But I can't write Java Script, only HTML and Shell.

[sdumetz]

Right now, I'm at the "define how it would work and how it would look" step, so you can definitely help with no JS knowledge.

What would be for you the minimal function set for this feature to be usable and to know how it maps in aptly API calls?

[starflighter]

I haven't worked long with aptly yet. I need some time to look at the api and some use-cases for the snapshots. So I hope I can tell you the next 2 weeks more....

[starflighter]

Sorry for the delay.
I need more time, a lot of other stuff to do at work :-)...
The minimal set is to get, add and delete the snapshots.
Is it possible to get a list of all the packages in a repo and you can choose which you like in the new snapshot? That would be a lot of packages... the performance would be probably horrible.

[sdumetz]

I implemented getting the snapshots in the latest commits. Deleting them should also be straightforward.

However I'm not yet sure about how snapshot creation should be handled? Maybe a simple button Create snapshot from "reponame" in /ui/snapshots would do for most use cases?

[starflighter]

That would be enough I think.

[starflighter]

I tried the new version of the web-ui. It looks good.

But can you change the date of the snapshot to format yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss? That is more readable.

[sdumetz]

Will do. Thanks for testing.

[sdumetz]

I've added a (crude) snapshot creation tool in v0.2.2 that should work.

It's useless as long as there is no way to restore/delete snapshots but hey, it's a start ;-)

[starflighter]

Hi,
I tried the version 02.2 today - it looks good...

Just for your information I set it up on a Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS with nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu). No problems here :-)
Next step is the action "delete snapshot" ?

[sdumetz]

I've an important rework on the publish API that's needed to support this.
As soon as it's done (next minor version), I'll be able to handle snapshot removal and publication easily.