Re: reboot after upgrade? and best practice
On 7/19/20 9:21 PM, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
I would like to ask what is the best practice for upgrading (updating
all packages, ie. "dnf upgrade") in my Fedora 32 Workstation. The Gnome Software
graphical application provides a way for me to do this, but it can also be achieved in the
command line. Do these two methods achieve exactly the same results? I would also like to
plainly ask if in any occasion it is necessary or advisable to perform a system reboot
after doing an "dnf upgrade". I have noticed that when the upgrade is performed
with Gnome Software, a reboot is always performed after the upgrade.
If you reboot after the dnf upgrade then the results are the same.
Until then you will still be using old versions of libraries and old
version of applications until you restart them. You can only use a new
kernel by rebooting. Some applications like Firefox can get unhappy if
you upgrade while they're running and can crash or have strange behaviour.
When you use Gnome Software to do the upgrade, the reboot is not after
the upgrade, the reboot is required to *do* the upgrade. Only the
downloading of packages is done, then when you reboot, it will do the
upgrade, then reboot again into the updated system.