Re: [Devil-linux-develop] remote update

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote on 09.02.2004 01:47 MET:
> Bruce Smith wrote on 09.02.2004 01:28 MET:
> 
>> Sure, if that can be done.  I was worried about problems updating a
>> running system (replacing libraries in use, etc.), which is why I
>> suggested booting off CD.
> 
> 
> It has to be done in the initrd anyway and you are not changing those 
> libraries when doing the update. And yes this might be a problem of its 
> own, we can not change the initrd anymore. Hmmmmm.....then initrd needs 
> some fixed parts (does not change across stable version) which loads the 
> varibale ones, taking into account to update those if an "update CD" 
> exists. Then the rest of the system is updated. Now this might also be a 
> good idea to include the update script _from_ CD. This way we can 
> provide for a more complicated if we did not think about a specific 
> update problem later and as this script is tamper proof (on CD!) it can 
> check all the signatures against a provided signature file (is that 
> really needed?).
> 
> Sounds to get complicated. What do you think?

Maybe I'm just over-complicating things here...

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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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