Schedule for Monday's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)

Jochen Schmitt Jochen at herr-schmitt.de
Sat Jun 16 12:57:30 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:15:53PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> #topic ticket 869 F18 Feature: Offline Updates using systemd and
> packagekit -
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates 
> .fesco 869

The titel of this feature is a lttle misleading for me and the
description of the feature sounds linke Windows where you get
the message: "Pleaae reboot your system to activate the installed
updates".

One of the most inportant advance of Linux over Windows is the
fact, that there are only a few situations - like kernel updates -
which requires a reboot of your system.

This features is inpractical of server systems where you want to
avoid reboots to minimizize downtimes.

I oppsoite it may be beeter to tag the packages where a reboot may
be requrire to activate the installed update with a virtual provides.

Yum may detect this virtaul provide during the update and can take
accorate action in this case.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt


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