-1 to urpmi as a daemon. It's not built to act as a daemon. And
additionally what if an update breaks the system (which it shouldn't, but
who knows, someone might not want to update their system)? I would rather
not have it as a service that runs on a timer. We're not Windows.

However, +1 to using systemd to run urpmi on distribution upgrades, or
reboot and upgrade. I can get behind that. That's what Fedora does, and I
fully support it.

On 20 April 2015 at 05:02, Tomasz Gajc <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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