Hi,

these days with all that fancy systemd stuff like services or timer, it is
easy to automate some processes.

I was thinking about running urpmi as systemd service triggered by a timer
(X times per day/week/month).

What are benefits or having urpmi as a daemon ?

1. Smooth upgrade

As urpmi is running by mdkonline, rpmdrake or in graphical console, some
gig updates may break current session and user will end in broken system.

2. Ease upgrade

I think this will help with KDE4 -> Plasma5 update, as when installing  new
desktop environment may cause X11 session to die, for certain when
switching to from X11 to Wayland.


What urpmi is missing ?

Urpmi does not use D-BUS or any IPC (mdkonline is not that kind) that will
help users to interact with urpmi running as a systemd service.


There is even more safe way to perform updates with using
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ but
currently this does not work, and i'm trying to figure it out what is
missing here.

WDYT ?
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