Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?
2014-09-12 15:35 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>
>> Well, online updates do break software from time to time on my system.
>
> I’ve had to do unattended updates of our old Kubuntu desktop at work
> at shutdown time as well, due to breakage involved in upgrading them
> while being in use (especially the desktop software, most noteworthy
> Mozilla ware).
>
> Sometimes, rebooting (or, at least, logging out then in again) after
> upgrades that touch “desktop” components is better.
>
> Funnily enough, this isn’t so much true for server systems, where we
> just restart the dæmons affected, and occasionally want a new kernel
> if even that.
I fully agree with that, and Simons analysis. I will talk to the
relevant people again, maybe we can get offline-updates happen on
shutdown afterall...
Cheers,
Matthias
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