Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 23.08.11 16:18, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote:
>> I'm trying to make the update experience in GNOME 3.2 much better; at
>> the moment updating core services and libraries whilst everything is
>> running is quite unpredictable and we really just want
On Wed, 24.08.11 13:39, Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) wrote:
> > r /upgrade
> >
> > That way we can be sure that the flag file is removed as soon as the
> > root fs is writable.
> >
> > The rest of the earlier suggestion would stay the same.
>
> So, thinking about the UI of this, I'm ass
Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) said:
> > very very early at boot /var might not be around yet. So maybe the
> > upgrade packs should be placed somewhere in the rootfs (or in /boot?
> > that might be a good idea actually if it fits...). Split-off /var is
> > nothing we can get rid of,
On 08/24/2011 08:32 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
Hmm, with the initramfs moving in the direction of being able to mount /usr, we
could extend it to mount the rest as well. We can see the initramfs as_the_
rescue environment, which could do the upgrade as well, without the need of
doing a reboot afterw
On 24.08.2011 10:08, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 08/24/2011 01:55 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> So, we want to make clear that any kind of solution that does not use a
>> proper recovery partition is merely a stop gap in our eyes.
>
> Agreed the way forward is recovery partition which g
On 08/24/2011 01:55 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
So, we want to make clear that any kind of solution that does not use a
proper recovery partition is merely a stop gap in our eyes.
Agreed the way forward is recovery partition which get's created at
install time and should be an opt out option
On Wed, 24.08.11 02:04, Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) wrote:
> However, there are a couple of caveats: since the generators are called
> very very early at boot /var might not be around yet. So maybe the
> upgrade packs should be placed somewhere in the rootfs (or in /boot?
> that mi
On Tue, 23.08.11 16:18, Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hello list, hello again Lennart,
Heya,
(just a couple of ideas I already uttered on IRC, just for the sake of
archiving and in case other folks are interested too..)
>
> I'm trying to make the update experience in GNOME 3.2 m
