On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:53:39 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:38:21 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 13:09:44 Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> One other thing that you mentioned in a previous post is that you allowed
> the automatic updates while still in runlevel 5. I agree that there are
> couple of things about this that needs more Windows installer like
> behavior especially with packages that can have an impact on locked links
> or libraries. And it is the main reason I never do automatic updates.
>
> Packages that need to be watched out for anything xorg, qt, kdebase,
> kdelibs. I imagine that there would be a whole lot more if they were
> gnome applications. It can make problems. And so it would be good that if
> packages were upgraded then rpm should detect that a link or library was
> not updated and upon next reboot overwrite them as required and restart
> services if required.
And should be upgraded in runlevel 3
(Sorry forgot to mention that)
> Another thing that would be good is if services were updated then part of
> the output at the end of the updating process should be some sort of
> message to check possible changes to configurations and to at least
> manually restart the relevant services. Services like mysql and
> cyrus-imap should be stopped before the update begins and later restarted
> after completed.
>
> But as usual, that's just my 2 cents worth.
>
Being a lengthy process, I continued working on the main laptop while it
progressed, so wasn't giving it my full attention, but I think the download
process happens while you are in rl5, dropping out to rl3 when the actual
update happens. But I couldn't swear to that.
Anne
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