the need of "Offline Updates"

[Jochen Schmitt]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:21:23PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

> the whole discussion abiut offline updates and why yum is not so good
> for dist-upgrades is from the wrong point of view, most of the problems
> are only existing because with each release working things are mangeled

Odd question, AFAIK I have understood the wiki page for this feature offline updates
woriking only, if you are have running a GUI on your system. For a servere
without a GuI offline update is not realize.
 
> the same for updates of services:
> 
> nothing would happen on a webserver with httpd if it would not be
> restarted at package-update which goes wrong if you are using PHP
> and packages of the dep-tree are not yet all updated which fails
> PHP to load, without the hardcoded restart httpd would happily
> continue to run with the old php-package from memory

Question: Does it makes sense to collect all services which should
be restarted during the update process and restart the services after
all packages was updated?

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt