On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 18/07/17 14:39, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski >> <domi...@greysector.net> wrote: >> >> >>> Could you explain the benefits of Atomic system + few layered RPMs vs. a >>> traditional Fedora installation? >> >> >> The OS itself is versioned and binary identical to any other >> installation with the same version. There is no longer the >> pathological behavior of everyone in effect having different sub >> versions of Fedora because their package versions differ, because they >> caught today's update, or yesterday's, or the before noon update, or >> the one with the moon transitioning from crescent to gibbous. > > > So what is the user experience of "updating" in this world? How does the > transition from one snapshot to the next occur?
That's a matter of policy that has to be worked out, and more than one policy is possible depending on contributions to make for a sane UI/UX. But under the hood the way it works with atomic host right now, it's a CLI interaction with rpm-ostree upgrade (and other subcommands like deploy, rebase, rollback). The update happens out of band in its own tree, so there's no such thing as yanking running binaries out from under a running system, and no compulsory reboot. It means there's no longer a reboot to get into the offline update mode, and then yet another reboot to use the updated system. When you do reboot, you get a GRUB menu that has the subversioned Fedora, e.g. Fedora 26.38 listed first and default and Fedora 26.21 as the prior tree you were running. Like everything else, the kernel version is baked into the subversion (some subversions may not have upgraded the kernel). My expectation in Gnome Software is it'll look a lot like it does now, a split out OS update which you can click on and see a list of binaries that are being updated and to what versions. >> Also, how to copy / push such apps to workstations. We're going on 18 >> years since .app bundles on macOS can be drag and drop copied to >> install, and it's like, really no one has copied this? The easiest way >> to put a second copy on another machine is to just download it again? >> That's silly. > > > Well macOS stole "app as a directory" from RISC OS which pushes the idea > back about 30 years ;-) OK fine, but we should steal that. But this is not the biggest hill to fight over. That flatpak consolidates applications to their own turf and prevents them from sneezing all over the OS turf is really super. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
