On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 1:50 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
<eoconnor25(a)gmail.com> wrote:
k....I'm just gonna ask this:
Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being
prompted to "restart & Install"?......
This is literally many years old behavior.
https://lwn.net/Articles/702629/
Is this WINDOWS!?.......I have enjoyed the fact that I could update
my
system and use my computer until I was ready to shutdown / restart at my
leisure. Now?....there's a funky button up top of the Software Updates
(after its found packages to update) that says "Restart &
Install"?......is there ANY way possible to TURN THIS CRAP OFF!!?? Is
there some config file I can alter that will make this GO AWAY!? (I know
I'm acting like a lunatic, but I was in the IT field since the Windows
NT 4.0 days...and after finding Linux?...I have enjoyed NOT having to
restart after updates.)
You really haven't, you're just not aware of, or maybe don't care
about, the ensuing problems.
Please Fedora Admins.....Fedora Magical
Unicorns......Fedora High Council Wizards....PLEASE find a way to make
this just GO AWAY!?....
There are a couple of long term solutions for the problem, depending
on what's being updated. For applications, flatpak can handle updates
(I'm not absolutely sure to what degree it's intended for and reliably
handles updating running applications, but I do it fairly regularly
and haven't seen any ensuing weirdness; the new version is available
at next launch). For the OS itself, rpm-ostree does an out of band
update (uses hard links to created a copy of the operating system, and
then updates that copy), you see the updates upon reboot which you can
do at your liesure. And openSUSE variant doing transactional updates
using Btrfs: basically it makes a snapshot of the operating system,
and applies the updates to the snapshot, and upon reboot it boots the
updated snapshot.
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Chris Murphy