[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#722446: Bug#722446: salt-minion: Salt minion unable to update salt

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joe Healy <joehealy at gmail.com> [2013.09.11.0815 +0200]:
> Running:
> 
> salt '*' pkg.install salt-minion
> 
> will result in the minion (and the dpkg) process being killed part
> way through the upgrade and requiring manual interverntion.

Isn't this a fundamental problem in Salt, which should be fixed
there? I don't think that using at(1) for this is really a solution,
but a gross hack, which still requires the admin to know what's
going on and to wait up to 1:59 minutes.

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