Am Do, den 29.04.2004 schrieb Jeremy Katz um 17:12: > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:22 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote: > > This is probably a stupid question, but anyway... Maybe, but with ~3 releases/year and a short "lifetime" of fedora every update cost a lot of time (especially if you have a lot of machines...). I really would like it if it would be possible to update while you can still work with the system. [...] > > Are there operations which need to be done on an unmounted filesystem ? If > > yes, they could be done by a "very-first-start" program after anaconda's > > work, or even something loaded in RAM. > > There are some operations that require newer libraries and newer > kernels, etc. eg, there are a few things now that are 2.6 specific and > count on the fact that you're running a 2.6 kernel so that you can be > correctly set up to run the 2.6 kernel post-upgrade. Having to do those > from within 2.4 is extremely difficult. And you need to use newer > rpmlib for some features which then depends on new glibc which depends > on ..., etc Then my stupid question: How hard would it be to update these core packages with on short boot from cd/dvd (~5 min) and install/update all the other packages at the next start parallel to a normal (or restricted) login session? CU thl
