Improving the offline updates user experience

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 12, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> The *only* way to do this
> securely and safely in the system we have now is in a clean pre-boot
> environment,

Mostly clean post-boot environment, with the system we have now?

> What we could do is do updates on shutdown by basically killing
> everything except PID 1, and then restart everything, but even then
> that relies on no systemd or kernel updates being present.

Even if the system is fully rebooted once, after the update is done in a post-boot environment, it's half the reboots needed now.

One step up from this would be a way for packages to contain metadata indicating they need a reboot after an update; if none require it, then isolate graphical.target rather than a reboot.


Chris Murphy