Use cx_freeze (or equiv) to make some critical tools impervious to upgrade woes
Registered by
Barry Warsaw
Some Python applications such as Update Manager have special considerations during upgrades which mess with the Python environment. Tools such as cx_freeze might be valuable to help make these tools less vulnerable to system instability during updates.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Robbie Williamson
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Barry Warsaw
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Barry Warsaw
Whiteboard
After UDS-M discussion, we decided that the benefits were not worth the effort. There are lots of problems inherent in freezing the critical apps (such as maintaining independent dependency tracking) that it's actually fairly difficult to accomplish.
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