On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 07:47 +0100, Alexander Bisogiannis wrote:
I think what they mean is that the update process itself should not require rebooting in to this "upgrade mode".
The current method requires two reboots to complete the proccess. One to boot in "update mode" and another to boot into the updated system.
This is something that can be fixed down to one reboot with engineering effort. I believe someone (Stephen?) already has a proof of concept. This would be good to explore further in the short term.
We've already decided that updates cannot be done safely without at least one reboot, so let's not bother with requests to remove that. We now have updates that download in the background, so time required for that isn't a problem anymore either. But we don't have them applying in the background yet. Atomic Workstation makes that possible -- then the update gets applied instantaneously on reboot -- but it might be a while before Atomic Workstation approaches the usability of normal Workstation.
Michael