On 02/03/2015 07:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, 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. > > It'd only be an improvement if users often saw a set of updates which > *only* contained such packages. In my experience that rarely if ever > happens. It happens for downstreams. -- 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
