Do we need this crap on LWN? [LWN.net]

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 14:03 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by bojan
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

Right, the inode-based filesystem makes this (mostly) transparent. But rpm's approach to file updates (used to) prevent the update of base libraries from being achievable on running systems.

Maybe it got fixed in the 5 years or so since I gave up SuSE, but I assumed it had not given your above comments.

I concur the problem here was rm important-file.

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Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 14:05 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Oh, and I've certainly updated X from 6.8 through 7.1 while running it without a hitch. I'm still convinced dpkg handles this slightly better. But it may just be prejudice on my part.

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 20:07 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> But rpm's approach to file updates (used to) prevent the update of base libraries from being achievable on running systems.

Going back to something like Red Hat Linux 7.2, this worked just fine. Upgraded glibc (remotely) many times. I honestly cannot remember before that...