Can’t you update it all regardless of whether you’re using it because the Linux file system leaves the old file intact and just writes a new file and updates the pointer so anything still using the old file carries on as if nothing happened and just gets the update the next time you run it?
This is true. But then I’m not using the latest version while I still have an active session, and that can lead to weird behaviour or errors after the fact.
Case in point, I once received an Xorg update that I allowed to install, but didn’t restart the computer properly until much, much later.
By then I’d forgotten about the update, so when I restarted and started having graphics problems, I was mystified.
I’ve also forgotten how that all panned out, but in the same situation I’d roll back to a previous Timeshift snapshot and work the system forward again until I find the culprit or things are stable, so I assume that’s what I did back then.
Yeah, that’s fair. It might be possible to get incompatible versions between two different tools that interact with each other, if say one shuts down and then starts up with the new version but the other doesn’t shut down and stays on the old.
Can’t you update it all regardless of whether you’re using it because the Linux file system leaves the old file intact and just writes a new file and updates the pointer so anything still using the old file carries on as if nothing happened and just gets the update the next time you run it?
This is true. But then I’m not using the latest version while I still have an active session, and that can lead to weird behaviour or errors after the fact.
Case in point, I once received an Xorg update that I allowed to install, but didn’t restart the computer properly until much, much later.
By then I’d forgotten about the update, so when I restarted and started having graphics problems, I was mystified.
I’ve also forgotten how that all panned out, but in the same situation I’d roll back to a previous Timeshift snapshot and work the system forward again until I find the culprit or things are stable, so I assume that’s what I did back then.
Yeah, that’s fair. It might be possible to get incompatible versions between two different tools that interact with each other, if say one shuts down and then starts up with the new version but the other doesn’t shut down and stays on the old.