On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:09:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Lots of people deeply hate the required reboot, though. I mean, they
> > despise it. You should've seen some of the messages I got around that
> > whole 'online update crashing X' kerfuffle a couple of weeks back.
> Oh, sorry, I was thinking updates, not upgrades. As you were.
Well, this was covered by at least one comment as well, which asked for
updates to happen transparently in the background.
How would it work? It would still yank things out from under the
running environment possibly making the whole system unstable, or
sufficiently confusing for the user that they initiate a reboot in the
middle of the update.
rpm-ostree does its updates out of band, i.e. they're done on an
inactive copy of the root file system, so they could be done in the
background. Even still, this requires a reboot to use the updated
tree. Granted, it's one less reboot than we have now.
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Chris Murphy