Comment 11 for bug 1686470
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1686470] Re: Apt updates that are uniformally spread across all timezones, with predictable application windows | #11 |
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:39:36PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> I think the "locking" is already done by systemd. When units specify an
> ordering, it seems that one unit will only start when the other has shut
> down:
> "Given two units with any ordering dependency between them, if one unit
> is shut down and the other is started up, the shutdown is ordered before
> the start-up"
That language sounds very general; it's probably worth having someone
explicitly check this for our case before committing to rely on systemd :)