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On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:25 -0500 |
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Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> There is a good reason for that, because in-place upgrades are |
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> impossible to do safely (and RedHat customers don't accept weird |
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> breakages like Gentoo users do). For example, if you replace a library |
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> or even a resource file (like a .ui file for GtkBuilder), the only way |
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> to make it work is to make sure that no currently running application |
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> is using it. And that just can't happen with system libraries like |
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> glibc or system packages like udev or dbus. So the only safe way to |
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> upgrade those is to reboot. |
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Uhm... Unix filesystems don't work that way; you can unlink an open file |
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and anything that has that file still opened will continue to work. |
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You're thinking of Windows; Unix supports in-place upgrades just fine. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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