Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

[Erich Jansen]

Erich Jansen wrote:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
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>> Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 00:43 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie
>> Morgan:
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>>> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:55:10 pm Jan Claeys wrote:
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>>>> Actually, a running firefox shows you a warning and a restart button (or
>>>> at least it did?) if it's older than the on-disk version.  I guess
>>>> that's part of the ubufox extension?
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>>>>         
>>> Yes, it does, but um...that kinda sucks. "I, the computer, demand that you, 
>>> the user, stop what you are doing and restart your browser NOW, losing all 
>>> your work in the process.  This is not optional.  I will barf if you try to 
>>> continue with your work or save it in any way, such as submitting that blog 
>>> post you just spent an hour writing."
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>> Doesn't restarting preserve the form contents?  (I never really tried.)
>>
>> Anyway there might be some issues with it indeed.  Maybe firefox updates
>> should warn the users beforehand, somehow?  I'm not sure how that would
>> work though.  Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right
>> solution?
>>
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> Yes it will preserve all your data for the restart. (just tried it out 
> in a VM)
>
> --
> Erich Matthew Jansen
> erich at stoptouchingmethere.com
>
>   
Also, isn't this an option that could be added to Ubiquity? Like when 
you are filling in your user information we could have a checkbox that 
enables automatic installation of all security updates? Have it checked 
by default but it at least allows the user a choice.

-- 
Erich Matthew Jansen
erich at stoptouchingmethere.com