On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 08:56:30AM +0100, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: > of course but that raises the question why new libs would require a reboot. > the worst that could happen
New libs does not require reboot on their own. The problem is with system/library only (and few other similar). The system/library package itself contains only few files that requires reboot (libc only). So with some effort we probably could make system/library usually upgradable without reboot (when libc is unchanged) but I think the bigger problem is that system/library depends on SUNWcs and SUNWcs contains 48 files that require reboot on update. And similar cascading dependencies makes the picture even more complex. > is that programs which depend on that lib would crash if they're restarted. > but if they're also updated, > then the next time they're restarted or just started it'll be fine. > let's say there's a new openssl so i simply copy the new one over the old > one, restart ssh and i'm good. > > similarly i can for example update rhel for months without a reboot and that > works. and i don't mean > live kernel patching. basically i only have to reboot for kernel stuff. but > for everything else i just > don't see a reason for all these reboots. To compare with rhel you should consider system/library similarly to their kernel-* packages. The main difference is that rhel's kernel packages are rebuild rarely AND almost no other package depends directly on them. OTOH, system/library in OI (and also the rest of "kernel" - the illumos-gate) is rebuild once a day and almost all pacakges depends on them (either directly or indirectly). So the current result is that if you want to stay up-to-date you need to reboot often. This is the fee we need to pay with the current way how OI Hipster is developed and built. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
