On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:22 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 07:38:33AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 7:33 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > - a one-shot service: this is easier to implement, it just needs to > > > happen in one place. The hard part is making sure that the machine > > > does not get reboot while the upgrade is happening. This is in > > > particular a problem with VMs and containers. The rebuild should be > > > wrapped with systemd-inhibit and other guards to make it hard to > > > interrupt. > > > > Wouldn't the systemd-inhibit plugin automatically ensure that a > > rebuild action would block sleep/poweroff? > > Unfortunately... not. From the man page: inhibitors "may be used to > block or delay system sleep and shutdown requests from the user, as > well as automatic idle handling of the OS." > Explicit non-interactive privileged requests override inhibitors [1,2]. > This has been discussed, and I think there's general sentiment that we > should have an ability to inhibit "everything", but so far nobody has > pushed for a solution. A solution could be proritized if it turns out > to be required in Fedora. > > [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2680 > [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6644 > I'm not sure it's needed with rpm 4.14+, since worst case is that you have to trigger the rebuild some other time if it's interrupted. > > > No matter how it wrapped, is the upgrade itself atomic? Having the new > > > db built under a temporary file name and then atomically rename(2)d > > > into place would be ideal. > > > > > > > Since RPM 4.14, RPM creates a new directory, writes the database > > content there, then renames the directory when it's done. > > Does it use renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE)? > No, but I don't think that matters with the way it's implemented? See: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/fffd652c56eaef8fc41d23190e39513639f2092d -- 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx