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Re: Updates on Login

 

Paulo J. S. Silva ha scritto:
Em Ter, 2009-07-07 às 11:14 +0200, Steve Dodier escreveu:

I know that in most cases this is not needed since the update will
happen well, but i think its better to make users expect to have to
act. If their mirror goes down, if debconf asks if a file should be
merged, if a dep is broken, if a public PPA key is missing, then the
user will need to be able to act in order to solve the problem.


I am sorry, but do you realize that the ordinary users we are talking
about here would not know what to do in any of those cases? For an
ordinary user updates should go without questions. I am not an ordinary
user but usually my updates don't ask me do any of those things.

The best idea I've seen so far is Vencenzo's one. Spend time and effort
making it possible to revert upgrades if failure occurs at next login.

This is not my idea: I've seen people talking on it on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list. Just don't know how it ended.

Vincenzo




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