Re: cron and package upgrade
On 2013-09-30 04:03:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > >
> > > > During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things
> > > > like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications
> > >
> > > You do system upgrades WITH X running? :(
> > >
> > > If there is a problem with the upgrade of X, you could end up with a
> > > borked system, or one that is going to be a PITA to fix.
> >
> > If something should cause such an issue by an update while X is running,
> > then I would restore from a backup and then do the backup with X not
> > running.
>
> (We're talking about an important upgrade. i.e 6.0 -> 7.0)
I am not. I'm running Debian unstable. But an upgrade of a set
of packages can still be an important upgrade, e.g. in case of
transition related to the X server. However if something goes
wrong here, it should still be possible to restart the upgrade
from a text virtual console or via SSH.
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