Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 05/02/2013 16:58, Reindl Harald ha scritto: 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly jokingly? show me a upgrade of production machines from F9 to F17 without end in a inconsistent system on windows - you can't, i have been there windows is missing anything like

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.02.2013 08:45, schrieb Matthias Runge: On 02/12/2013 02:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the point is that i NEVER EVER want to stop any service by a RPM update and define this GLOBAL for all services with one single config line Well, although I understand your intention. But, e.g. if

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
But, e.g. if openssl is updated for security issues, all dependent services need to be restarted. If not, you're still e.g. vulnerable. That can't be your wish. Ah, but if sshd is restarted in the middle of the update, and you ssh'd into the machine to do the update, it kills the install

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.02.2013 19:19, schrieb DJ Delorie: But, e.g. if openssl is updated for security issues, all dependent services need to be restarted. If not, you're still e.g. vulnerable. That can't be your wish. Ah, but if sshd is restarted in the middle of the update, and you ssh'd into the

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-12 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 02/06/2013 12:02 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: There is even a documented way for a package to stop its services, before it gets updated, and restart it, after the update, see /var/lib/rpm-state Can you point me to such documentation, please? I found only

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-12 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 05.02.2013 13:21, Reindl Harald wrote: the whole discussion abiut offline updates and why yum is not so good for dist-upgrades is from the wrong point of view, most of the problems are only existing because with each release working things are mangeled actual example:

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.02.2013 13:52, schrieb Miroslav Suchý: On 02/06/2013 12:02 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: There is even a documented way for a package to stop its services, before it gets updated, and restart it, after the update, see /var/lib/rpm-state the point is that i NEVER EVER want to stop any

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jochen Schmitt wrote: Odd question, AFAIK I have understood the wiki page for this feature offline updates woriking only, if you are have running a GUI on your system. For a servere without a GuI offline update is not realize. It is actually only implemented in gnome-packagekit. Current Apper

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-06 Thread Pavel Alexeev
05.02.2013 19:58, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.02.2013 16:49, schrieb Jochen Schmitt: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:30:50AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly jokingly? show me a upgrade of production machines from F9 to F17 without end in

the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
the whole discussion abiut offline updates and why yum is not so good for dist-upgrades is from the wrong point of view, most of the problems are only existing because with each release working things are mangeled actual example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907749

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 13:21 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: and at the end of the road we will be on the windows way you touched anything on the system and so please reboot now That's not true - no engineer involved in operating systems development wants that. However: 1) Modern Windows requires

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Jochen Schmitt
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:30:50AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly That is more a QA related topic. On Fedora 17 I have several times the expirience, that an update didn't worked well due the existence of broken dependencies. Best

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Jochen Schmitt
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:21:23PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: the whole discussion abiut offline updates and why yum is not so good for dist-upgrades is from the wrong point of view, most of the problems are only existing because with each release working things are mangeled Odd question,

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.02.2013 16:49, schrieb Jochen Schmitt: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:30:50AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly jokingly? show me a upgrade of production machines from F9 to F17 without end in a inconsistent system on windows - you

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.02.2013 16:58, schrieb Jochen Schmitt: the same for updates of services: nothing would happen on a webserver with httpd if it would not be restarted at package-update which goes wrong if you are using PHP and packages of the dep-tree are not yet all updated which fails PHP to load,

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: it would make MUCH more sense and if you are there and have removed the condrestart-crap from all of the SPEC-files you are in a position to make a global setting not restart any service which is what i want in case of a

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.02.2013 18:02, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Hi On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: it would make MUCH more sense and if you are there and have removed the condrestart-crap from all of the SPEC-files you are in a position to make a global setting

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Currently, the recommendation is to use systemd macros which essentially makes this a global setting. I am not sure why you are not in favor of that because %posttrans test -f

Re: the need of Offline Updates

2013-02-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jochen Schmitt writes: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:21:23PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: nothing would happen on a webserver with httpd if it would not be restarted at package-update which goes wrong if you are using PHP and packages of the dep-tree are not yet all updated which fails PHP to