On Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:38:21 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:09:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
One other thing that you mentioned in a previous post is that you allowed the automatic
updates while still in runlevel 5. I agree that there are couple of things about this that
needs more Windows installer like behavior especially with packages that can have an
impact on locked links or libraries. And it is the main reason I never do automatic
updates.
Packages that need to be watched out for anything xorg, qt, kdebase, kdelibs. I imagine
that there would be a whole lot more if they were gnome applications. It can make
problems. And so it would be good that if packages were upgraded then rpm should detect
that a link or library was not updated and upon next reboot overwrite them as required and
restart services if required.
And should be upgraded in runlevel 3
(Sorry forgot to mention that)
Another thing that would be good is if services were updated then
part of the output at the end of the updating process should be some sort of message to
check possible changes to configurations and to at least manually restart the relevant
services. Services like mysql and cyrus-imap should be stopped before the update begins
and later restarted after completed.
But as usual, that's just my 2 cents worth.
Eli
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