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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Major
whenever a new jenkins package is available and installed by apt-get install or unattended-upgrade, jenkins is immediately re-started. This is very intrusive because it immediately cancels running users jobs. This is especially annoying on long-running jobs over night.
Package upgrades should not impact users processes. Fortunately jenkins has the option to re-start as soon as it is idle.
when installing an upgrade that should be used instead of the immediate re-start.
[JENKINS-49611] Debian packaging: on upgrade jenkins should be re-started when idle instead immediately
Summary | Original: on upgrade jenkins should be re-started when idle | New: on upgrade jenkins should be re-started when idle instead immediately |
Summary | Original: on upgrade jenkins should be re-started when idle instead immediately | New: Debian packaging: on upgrade jenkins should be re-started when idle instead immediately |
Issue Type | Original: Bug [ 1 ] | New: Improvement [ 4 ] |
Workaround would probably be to have long-running jobs use pipeline, whose running jobs survive restarts. I expect this won't see much traction any time soon because of that.