On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 11:27 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:25:40 +0100 > > Robert Scheck <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> [PackageKit] kills my Firefox nicely during package updating, > >> well-well done. > > > > Running instances of Firefox always break when the Firefox package is > > being updated. It does not matter what you use for the update (rpm, > > yum, PK). This is not PackageKit's fault. > > In general, any software can break when a running copy has its files > swapped out from under it. XULRunner-based apps exacerbate this flaw > in the package system because they use versioned directories. > > But it's not Firefox's fault either. Think about icons, glade files, > etc. that might be included in software. > > It's something that really needs to be fixed in yum/rpm. Windows has > a notion of "update this file after reboot", which might be the way to > go. Somehow delaying file updates until after a reboot sounds yucky to me, not only because merely quitting firefox and starting it again would help in this instance. Perhaps we should find a way where yum/PK would flag packages which are known to have these issues to the user in the form of "updating these packages requires you to restart firefox/..." akin to how we hint users to logout and back in (e.g. update of basic GNOME packages) or reboot the machine (kernel). Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
