Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 oct 13, 13:56:32, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications You do system upgrades WITH X running? :( One of my machines

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-10-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-09-30 04:03:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-10-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications You do system upgrades WITH X running? :( One of my machines is an Unstable Sid system as a desktop. I am using it

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually,

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications You do system upgrades WITH X running? :( If there is a problem with the upgrade of X, you could

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications You do system upgrades WITH X

cron and package upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? Shouldn't this be done by default? -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? Shouldn't this be done by default? I have noticed this at times too. When I am doing a full system upgrade from major release to major

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-09-23 14:11:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: When packages are upgraded (e.g. locales), cron scripts can given errors. Is it possible to lock (delay) them during a package upgrade? Shouldn't this be done by default? I have noticed this at times too. When I am