On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/02/2018 08:44 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> See: 2001 or so unless you had upgraded to a new gblic there wasn't a
> need to reboot Linux machines. Most of the times it was enough to log
> in/out of your X. And that was it. And that approach was, AFAICS, what
> John Morris probably was referring to.
From the other threads on this topic, this was not entirely true. And now,
there are many more moving parts so the chance of running into a problem are
higher. If you update libraries, you have restart all the services that use
them. And your point about logging out of X defeats most of the purpose of
doing a live update anyway. Most people want to do it to avoid closing
their open applications. And updating something like LibreOffice or Firefox
while it's running is just asking for trouble.
I'm not sure about what you mean with "Live Update": Is this sort of
update able to restart services in a running system (X even?) if
needed, and without the need to reboot?
Wolfgang