On 10/04/2016 12:06 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2016 8:52 AM, "Adam Williamson" <adamw...@fedoraproject.org > <mailto:adamw...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: >> >> Recently several reports of people getting 'duplicated packages' and >> 'kernel updates not working' have come through to us in QA from Fedora >> 24 users. I managed to get one reporter to explain more specifically >> what happened, and it sounds a lot like what's happening is that >> something in the 'dnf update' process can cause a GNOME or X crash, >> possibly depending on hardware or package set installed. When that >> happens, the update process is killed and does not complete cleanly, >> which is why you get 'duplicated packages' and other odd results. > > How hard would it be to make dnf do the rpm transaction inside a proper > system-level service (transient or otherwise)? This would greatly increase > robustness against desktop crashes, ssh connection loss, KillUserProcs, and > other damaging goofs.
That seems like a waste of effort, considering we have the offline updates process which just boots into a special, minimalist environment with almost nothing but the updater running.
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