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On 09/16/2014 06:33 AM, Richard Hughes
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I've triaged many bugs to do with online and offline update failures, and if we're going to say that we actually care about the users data, it becomes increasingly hard to defend the "old" way of doing it. I'm sure I could find numerous bugs numbers where doing an online update made the session/terminal crash which of course leaves you with duplicate packages on your system which may or may not be fixable. RichardOK, but this is means that we painted ourselves in the corner---something is wrong if my Android phone, which I don't have to reboot for updates, has higher uptime than my computer. We are in a bind: on one hand, the best security practice is to upgrade daily to avoid emerging vulnerabilities; on the other hand daily reboots aren't really a nutritious alternative. Something has to give---which one do we do: - create a separate daily security upgrade stream, curated to not require reboots if at all possible - follow Microsoft and do a fixed 'patch Tuesday' schedule instead of ASAP updates - rewrite Linux or at least Gnome/DBus for safe updates :) |
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