Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Issues with remote update of DL

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Tim Tait wrote on 27.05.2004 00:38 MET:
>> Since the new config has not been saved yet, no permanent harm done. 
>> Now the user can ssh in and review them. If they are not to their 
>> exact liking then they can run upgrade-config again with the right 
>> input, and make a new-etc tree.  Save that as etc.tar.bz2 (do the 
>> paths need to be munged?) over the old one, and reboot. Voila! Trick 
>> is to try to garantee the 1st boot has a high likelyhood of success.
> 
> 
> Hmmmm.....maybe in case of autoupdate we should start a process in the 
> background that does nothing than the following:
>    sleep 10min
>    <restore prev. version of DL and remove disable new one>
>    reboot -n -f
> 
> This way you'd at least end up with the not updated system back to live 
> if everything else fails. Of course we'd then need to add some kind of 
> warning to the admins login to not forget to kill this process ;-)

This is a very good idea !


> Anyway those files that could not be upgrade by an auto-upgrade, eg. 
> because they where changed manually, need to be updated manually anyway.
> 

True

Heiko