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coreos / zincati

Agent for Fedora CoreOS auto-updates
https://coreos.github.io/zincati
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update_agent: add hidden knob to override interactive session check #1178

Closed jlebon closed 6 months ago

jlebon commented 6 months ago

An issue as old as ~time~Fedora CoreOS is that when you're testing something related to updates, you want Zincati to reboot but because cosa run gives you an interactive session and you can't not have a session without losing the VM, you're stuck waiting for the 10 minutes grace period to expire.

Just add a hidden knob for this to make that scenario less painful.

The API is pretty much: when you're ready to have Zincati reboot, just touch /run/zincati/override-interactive-check.

dustymabe commented 6 months ago

I think this touches on a paper cut I thought would be handled by https://github.com/coreos/zincati/issues/498 when we finally implemented that.

As is it improves the state, but I think users should have a documented way to do this too.

dustymabe commented 6 months ago

I think this touches on a paper cut I thought would be handled by #498 when we finally implemented that.

for example, #498 could handle the "I'm in an interactive session, an update is available, and I want to ignore update strategy (i.e. if your node isn't configured to update until the weekend)" case.

jlebon commented 6 months ago

I think this touches on a paper cut I thought would be handled by #498 when we finally implemented that.

Yeah, thanks for calling out #498. I agree it'd mostly solve that case, though OTOH it's also a lot more work. I found this useful for debugging https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1691 and it took a few minutes to type it out. We can nuke it when #498 happens.