On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2016 8:52 AM, "Adam Williamson" <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Recently several reports of people getting 'duplicated packages' and >> 'kernel updates not working' have come through to us in QA from Fedora >> 24 users. I managed to get one reporter to explain more specifically >> what happened, and it sounds a lot like what's happening is that >> something in the 'dnf update' process can cause a GNOME or X crash, >> possibly depending on hardware or package set installed. When that >> happens, the update process is killed and does not complete cleanly, >> which is why you get 'duplicated packages' and other odd results. > > How hard would it be to make dnf do the rpm transaction inside a proper > system-level service (transient or otherwise)? This would greatly increase > robustness against desktop crashes, ssh connection loss, KillUserProcs, and > other damaging goofs. > > I once hosed a RHEL5 system when an ssh terminal running yum died. Sigh. > This is pretty much what dnfdaemon does. However, dnfdaemon is only used by yumex-dnf[1] and dnfdragora[2]. To the best of my knowledge, there are no CLI clients for it. [1]: https://github.com/timlau/yumex-dnf [2]: https://github.com/anaselli/dnfdragora -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
