Re: system upgrade by systemd
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:27:25AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On 08/27/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Meskes wrote:
> >
> >> Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in
> >> the first place.
> > Let me guess, the file was re-created by some software.
> As administrator of my own systems it would bother me that some random
> file /remove-my-packages will trigger an action at restart.
My mom is also the administrator of her system, and it would bother *me*
if she should have to check that box every imte to get security updates.
> This should at least be time stamped so that shutting down a system will
> not trigger an upgrade when you start it up a month later or restored
> files from backup. Of course that can make the upgrade fail/not happen
> but I think that's the less risky route.
>
> What do you think?
Not sure, maybe.
I think it probably makes sense to have this on by default for stable
and off by default for testing/unstable. I assume the default option is
not configurable?
Even better might be a first-boot question asking the user about it, but
I am not sure such a framework exists at all (for Gnome) right now.
Michael
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