Re: Upgrading while libraries/programs in use
- From: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:04:39 GMT
On 2006-03-07, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:38:20 GMT
Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-03-06, GT <goumba2k5-groups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I've been using FreeBSD for 4 years now, and have always followed the
(required) Windows practice of not having any programs in use while
using portupgrade. I haven't found info on the subject, but is this
really necessary with FreeBSD?
If you're willing to deal with your running applications crashing: no,
it's not necessary. The worst that will happen is they may crash and
stop working until the portupgrade finishes.
Hmm - that has never happened to me since portupgrade was
launched, perhaps it's a consequence of only using fairly simple
applications like X, xterms, sylpheed, firefox, xfig ... and not heaving
great monsters like KDE, gnome, openoffice ...
firefox often does stop working properly if you upgrade it while it's
running, because it isn't entirely memory-resident and when e.g. some
of the xml files change out from underneath it, it will give runtime
errors when you e.g. try to save bookmarks, print pages, etc.
Kris
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