On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, good news! This is in fact already possible to do today, as I just tested. > The following set of commands does exactly this: > > ``` > pkcon refresh force > pkcon update --only-download > pkcon offline-trigger > systemctl isolate system-update.target > ``` > > This all runs in the current boot and will trigger a reboot immediately after > the update completes. All of this should be easily possible to do for > Workstation within GNOME Software if we agree that's easier on the end-user. Cool. Are the sysfs leak concerns by systemd folks considered minor? Is there any advantage to running this in an nspawn container if that's a cleaner environment? I asked about this on the ostree list and it looks like they're doing this with bubblewrap, although I can't comment on the qualitative difference, if any. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ostree-list/2016-October/msg00021.html >> There's also kexec: with recent kernels kexec does not work for me anymore >> (graphics crash). Nevertheless, kexec is something worth considering too: >> the state is reset quite thoroughly, and we avoid the potentially very >> slow POST. > > 2.0 I thought kexec was disabled for this purpose, at least on UEFI Secure Boot enabled computers? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
