[indiana-discuss] Update "entire" again and again?

[Glynn Foster]

On 10/06/2009, at 12:57 PM, David Abrahams wrote:

>
> on Tue Jun 09 2009, Brock Pytlik <bpytlik-AT-sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Update manager does an image update which (for now) updates an  
>> alternate BE. So, it's
>> technically correct when it tells you that an update is available  
>> for the current BE
>> just after you've updated it. Whether that's a helpful user  
>> interaction is a different
>> question,
>
> Quite so.  Not much of a question, if you ask me ;-)

I agree - the interaction of the update manager is pretty poor. It  
should at the very least try and prompt you to reboot into the new BE.  
UM should also probably know the difference between a milestone update  
(say going from 2008.11 to 2009.06) and other types of updates [1].  
Hopefully the relevant folks are already looking at this and figuring  
out the best user experience.


Glynn

[1] Understanding that on the /dev repository the interaction may want  
to be different