On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:09:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
Lots of people deeply hate the required reboot, though. I mean, they despise it. You should've seen some of the messages I got around that whole 'online update crashing X' kerfuffle a couple of weeks back.
Oh, sorry, I was thinking updates, not upgrades. As you were.
Well, this was covered by at least one comment as well, which asked for updates to happen transparently in the background.
How would it work? It would still yank things out from under the running environment possibly making the whole system unstable, or sufficiently confusing for the user that they initiate a reboot in the middle of the update.
rpm-ostree does its updates out of band, i.e. they're done on an inactive copy of the root file system, so they could be done in the background. Even still, this requires a reboot to use the updated tree. Granted, it's one less reboot than we have now.