Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 23.08.11 16:18, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I'm trying to make the update experience in GNOME 3.2 much better; at >> the moment updating core services and libraries whilst everything is >> running is quite unpredictable and we really just want to update stuff >> like systemd, dbus and libc in shutdown when the system is in a known >> and quiet state. > > Updating libc, dbus, systemd and so on from within the system is > probably always a bad idea. I'd very much prefer if we could do this > from an external environment
I don't think we ever had any problem with a libc or dbus maintenance update that could have been solved with updating at shutdown or from a rescue partition. Maintenance updates for low level components like that are not supposed to change things in an incompatible way. The kernel is special but the solution there is to always keep at least the last known working one instead of replacing the old version. The more problematic updates are usually on the other end of the stack, ie desktop apps that get version upgraded and freak out if files are replaced behind their back. Asking the user to reboot just to update e.g. the web browser or mail client would be retarded though. There has to be a better way. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel