On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao <casey.jao(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not
>>> require a total
>>> system reboot to be updated?
>>
>> Yes, see
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps --
>> basically, you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app
>> deployments without a reboot in a safe way.
>
> There are classes of RPMs that definitely can be done without a
> reboot in a safe way (documentation-only; packages with a single
> executable and no libraries / separate data files; and quite a few
> other cases), and letting packagers opt them in to being updated
> without a reboot seems like a clear improvement on the status quo.
It'd only be an improvement if users often saw a set of updates which
*only* contained such packages. In my experience that rarely if ever
happens.
It happens for downstreams.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security