On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 20:38 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I don't understand how you arrive at this conclusion. dnf is sitting > > on the top of a house of cards when it's running in Terminal. If > > anything below it dies, dnf dies and by extension so is rpm. Could dnf > > be put into it's own session or scope (whatever it's called), and > > would that prevent it from dying if the whole GUI died? > > > Yes. dnf would prepare the transaction, solve dependencies, etc, and > then kick off a service to do the actual work. The service would pipe > the progress state and such back to the client.
FWIW, someone told me today (in rather colorful terms) that apt-get is designed exactly this way. It survives the death of its controlling terminal (and, allegedly - again, I don't know this from personal experience - has decent support for completing failed transactions if the apt-get process itself crashes). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
