On 10/04/2016 12:51 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/04/2016 12:06 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 4, 2016 8:52 AM, "Adam Williamson" <adamw...@fedoraproject.org
>>> <mailto:adamw...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Recently several reports of people getting 'duplicated packages' and
>>>> 'kernel updates not working' have come through to us in QA from Fedora
>>>> 24 users. I managed to get one reporter to explain more specifically
>>>> what happened, and it sounds a lot like what's happening is that
>>>> something in the 'dnf update' process can cause a GNOME or X crash,
>>>> possibly depending on hardware or package set installed. When that
>>>> happens, the update process is killed and does not complete cleanly,
>>>> which is why you get 'duplicated packages' and other odd results.
>>>
>>> How hard would it be to make dnf do the rpm transaction inside a proper
>>> system-level service (transient or otherwise)?  This would greatly increase
>>> robustness against desktop crashes, ssh connection loss, KillUserProcs, and
>>> other damaging goofs.
>>
>> That seems like a waste of effort, considering we have the offline updates
>> process which just boots into a special, minimalist environment with almost
>> nothing but the updater running.
>>
>>
> 
> By that standard, why do we support dnf at all?
> 
> $ sudo dnf upgrade
> Error: dnf upgrade is dangerous.  Use PackageKit instead and reboot when 
> asked.
> 
> I, for one, *like* not rebooting, and I'm perfectly capable of
> rebooting manually if stuff breaks.  As far as I know, Fedora
> considers plain ol' dnf to be supported.
> 
> For server use, I'm not convinced that the offline update mechanism is
> supported (at the very least, I have no idea how to trigger it), and
> servers have the same issue.

```
sudo pkcon refresh force && \
sudo pkcon update --only-download && \
sudo pkcon offline-trigger **
sudo systemctl reboot
```



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