[haiku] Re: Installing nightly ontop of another
- From: Adam Smith <amsmith42@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:36:02 -0500
Is that "avoid activating a new system package and *avoid requiring* the
user to reboot" or "'avoid activating a new system package' AND 'require
the user to reboot'"?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23.04.2014 09:34, Stephan Aßmus wrote:
>
>> There is work going on to make the whole concept of installing a newer
>> nightly on top of an existing installation obsolete. The system should
>> just update itself, which was one of the reasons for having package
>> management in the first place. From reading the recent commits in this
>> regard, I take it this update feature is not yet complete.
>>
>
> In theory, given a newer repository, at least pkgman can already update
> the system to a newer version. In practice the process still has a few
> issues, since all the system packages are replaced live, which can (and
> usually does) lead to hiccups (like system crashes). My intended solution
> for this issue is to avoid activating a new system package and require the
> user to reboot.
>
> This leads to a situation where the set of installed packages differs from
> the set of active packages, which is a something the package daemon and the
> package managers (pkgman, HaikuDepot) need to be able to deal with. A
> similar situation occurs when booting into an old state (*) and is easier
> to reproduce, so I decided to implement that first.
>
> I'm currently working on that very topic, but due to my limited Haiku time
> progress is relatively slow.
>
> CU, Ingo
>
> (*) When installing/uninstalling/updating packages via pkgman or
> HaikuDepot the package daemon backs up the previous state of the installed
> packages. Since sometime last week the boot loader allows selecting such an
> old state to boot into. So, if an update breaks something (even the boot
> process) unexpectedly, it is possible to boot into the working old state.
>
>
>
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