On Friday, 15 June 2007 at 19:36, John Dennis wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 19:19 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 12:12 -0400, John Dennis a écrit : > > > > > One has to know to restart the desktop session service only after its > > > files have been upgraded fully, e.g. in %post. Any scheme based on > > > watching other components will expose you to a race condition. > > > > user starts gnome-terminal > > user launches a yum update > > first gui package reaches the %post stage > > session is restarted > > gnome-term is killed > > yum is killed in the middle of an upgrade > > user system is broken > > user is angry > > No, we are not discussing restarting the entire desktop session, that > would be a huge problem. We are talking about restarting specific > session *services*. It did happen at some point in FC6 though. When updating from fresh install to (then) current updates-released. Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
