On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 12 September 2014 16:16, Nathanael d. Noblet <nathan...@gnat.ca> wrote: > > Yeah, I almost never use the reboot & install method. 90% of the > > packages being installed/updated seem foolish to need a reboot to > > update. > > I've been called worse that foolish I guess... > > > I typically do a yum update manually and then if I notice > > glibc/kernel/systemd or other big packages do a reboot. > > That's just not safe. Have you ever had firefox open and done a > firefox update? Widgets start disappearing, redraws start having weird > artifects and then after a little while it just crashes. Other > applications like LibreOffice behave the same. Anyone that says things > like "the old version of the library stays in memory" obviously hasn't > actually done much real-world GUI programming in the last decade, or > runs any kind of secure desktop system. The *only* way to do this > securely and safely in the system we have now is in a clean pre-boot > environment, which is sad and crap UX, but still nevertheless true. > When we have application sandboxing and a stable OS platform to use, > we can certainly do something more sane, but until then we're just > hacking around the problem.
So I don't use Firefox anymore but I do know back in the day if we had FF open when we updated it would do a double request for each page/form. However when updating we just restarted FF and it would work fine after that. I've never noticed any other issues than FF but like I said I don't use it anymore. Granted that doesn't matter obviously we don't want that kind of behaviour. I am curious though. Everyone says the only way to do it securely and safely is with nothing running. Why can't updates be applied with stuff running prior to a reboot? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
