Comment on Manjaro Immutable out now for community testingparentComments−akkartik2ySay we find a bug in the operating system. What is the procedure for fixing the bug?−djbusby2yDeploy an updated, but immutable image.Like, Partition1 has v1 and you boot, read only. Then the upgrade image goes in Partition2 and boots readonly.You can still upgrade but every boot of the image is from the same fixed state. And you don't upgrade in-place.−c0balt2yThey do "atomic" updates for immutable distributions, effectively treating an "apt update" always as an update for all components. There's some systems for this that usually require a reboot afterward to load the new system version.
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Say we find a bug in the operating system. What is the procedure for fixing the bug?
Deploy an updated, but immutable image.
Like, Partition1 has v1 and you boot, read only. Then the upgrade image goes in Partition2 and boots readonly.
You can still upgrade but every boot of the image is from the same fixed state. And you don't upgrade in-place.
They do "atomic" updates for immutable distributions, effectively treating an "apt update" always as an update for all components. There's some systems for this that usually require a reboot afterward to load the new system version.