Hi Gergo,
> If as you proposed the rpm postinstall script had stopped the service,
> then you would have waken up in the morning with some crashed data
> transfer... (I dunno which one is better :-))
It is obviously better a crashed data transfer that can be restarted
than a corrupted database which requires a rebuild of the database and
will block future transfers until things are fixed. Don't you agree?
> So, none of the solution is perfect, personally
> *I'm very much againts of apt-autoupdate*.
You might be against it but that's what people use and upgrades should
perhaps be tested also in automatic updates.
> If I run a production site then it would be me who
> would like to do the upgrade and see,follow the output and
> read the release notes carefully before, not only superficially.....
Do you run one?
> PS: And of course very probably after the database is corrupted the
> update script is not gonna to work...
Indeed.
cheers
alessandra
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