On 02/02/2015 04:50 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao <casey.jao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a >>> total >>> system reboot to be updated? >> >> Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically, >> you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app deployments >> without a reboot in a safe way. > > There are classes of RPMs that definitely can be done without a reboot in a safe way (documentation-only; packages with a single executable and no libraries / separate data files; and quite a few other cases), and letting packagers opt them in to being updated without a reboot seems like a clear improvement on the status quo. And updates of sandboxed apps will need system-wide (or even larger) coordination once they start to interact with each other, so it's essentially the same affair as with RPM: Doing the right thing requires work. And to be honest, reboots aren't the problem, it's state loss on application restart. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
