Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:40:34PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 15.09.2014 um 14:28 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:57:13AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> >> 1) I run some application, which loads my foo.rb file.
> >> 2) I later update the package which removes bar.rb file.
> >> 3) And I call some_function which fails due to missing bar.rb
> > 
> > How is this not 'foo' simply being broken?  ie. Not expressing its
> > needs properly in its RPM dependencies?
> > 
> > It would still have been broken even with a reboot
> 
> no - why should it?
> 
> 'foo' is loaded in memory, updated and now has different dependencies
> no longer require 'bar.rb' but your running version still do

Please read closely.  'foo' has *not* been updated.

If 'foo' had been updated, we would have spotted it and restarted that
process using my technique outlined in the previous email.

Rich.

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