Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

Miroslav Suchý msuchy at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 14:28:34 UTC 2013


On 01/23/2013 07:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> The thing is that doing on-line updates only works for stuff you can
> restart, and that doesn't mind that things are not atomically
> updated. However, much (most?) of our code isn't like that. Anybody who

What could not be restarted? And what we can do to fix that?

If this work for Debian/Ubuntu, why it could not work for Fedora?

> tried to update the Firefox RPM while it is running knows that this
> doesn't end well, and you frequently have to manually kill firefox to
> get it back into a usual state.

Interesting. Although I'm doing yum upgrade quite frequently I do not 
have such experience.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering


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