On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
On 16.07.2017 14:10, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Debarshi Ray wrote:
>> How about reliable online updates of running applications as a
>> benefit?
>
> Upgrading RPM applications online just works. I do it all the time. The KDE
> tools do not even implement offline updates (and IMHO that's a good thing).
> The worst that can happen is that some recalcitrant applications (by far the
> minority) need to be restarted after updating (or if you upgraded the whole
> desktop, then your session may need to be restarted after updating). Until
> you do that, the current session may be "hosed" to some extent, but
> restarting will fix it.
no, the worst case is this:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/10/04/x-crash-during-fedora-update-whe...
I had this kind of fun problem upgrading F25 -> F26. I was lazy and didn't
want to reboot so I was just running dnf distro-sync in a gnome-terminal
session. I've upgrade this way since F6 and mostly it just works, but
forgot to nohup it. About 1/3 of the way through installing new packages,
something causes gnome-terminal to die. I had to write a script to read
the dnf planned transaction log and finish installing and erasing remaining
packages, and manually run any %posttrans scripts.
So yeah, even with latest Fedora things can & do go horribly wrong if you
ignore the advice to not run upgrades from a live system.
Regards,
Daniel
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