Using plymouth to install updates at startup time

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Richard Hughes at 03/06/12 15:17 did gyre and gimble:
> On 3 June 2012 15:08, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh right, the initrd already started it presumably.  Though, you'll
>> want to make sure it still gets started on systems that don't have
>> initrds too:
> 
> Hmm, I hadn't thought about this, thanks.
> 
>> Well, I had assumed there wouldn't be a reboot, but instead a
>> systemctl isolate system-update.target
> 
> Nahh, Lennart wanted a full reboot so we can start afresh with new
> library versions, directory locations and that kind of thing.

A reboot after updates makes sense I guess, but is it 100% required that
there is a reboot *before* the updates? Can they not be applied on
shutdown or restart instead?

Col


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