Improving the offline updates user experience

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:56:00 +0200
Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/2014 09:07 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > the important point in that case is not reboot after upgrading
> > Firefox but*before*  upgrading Firefox, which means that at the
> > time of the upgrade no Firefox will be running and potentially
> > crashing because one of the 100s of DSOs it loads on-demand has
> > changed in an incompatible way.
> 
> The upgrade can last one hour (more or less). I'm not going to wait
> for upgrade and looking at black screen (albeit with progress bar).
> When upgrading - I save critical work in progress, and start reading
> articles from my RSS queue. And if Firefox crash (which happens very
> very rarely) I lost nothing, but get one hour of my life for free.

I have had some of my arm systems take 6-8 hours and even more to update
storage is a class 10 microsd card. the system was Fedora 21 and about
2-3 weeks worth of updates to be applied, about 700 packages.

Dennis

> To be constructive: I can imagine displaying dialog:
>    Going to upgrade your system. Do you want to do it offline?
>      * Yes - most safe way
>      * No - there is non-trivial chance that some running application
> would crash (proceed on your own risk)
> 
> And let the user decide if he is power user or not.
> 

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