Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2008-05-05 at 19:25 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
And when offline upgrading is not an option or when it is
too costly? You just tell people "too bad?" What about people who don't want to do it the Windows way?
Have a spare ready. Or use a software system that costs real money and supports real, live, update.
Look, you have to replace /every/ software thing in there. All programs depends on libraries, like glibc: every program depends on that one. Once you replace that library, most of the old programs may/will fail to start again. You are stuck.
The procedure can work if every needed program is already running and remains running till the end of the procedure, because the running version is kept in memory, while the disk has the new (partial) version. Once you update everything (it is not possible to update some things, unless you use libraries on different paths, which means they are compiled to use those diffrnt paths), you restart everything, including the kernel.
Chances are something will go bad. 100 to 1.
The only method to update single packages is that you recompile those packages against your set of libraries, and install those.
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