On 06/30/2011 01:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:46 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:38:34 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: [....]
Then you should know to run needs-restarting when it has finished to check for this yourself.
Maybe the OP knows, but in thirteen years of running linux (almost all RedHat or clones) I've never heard of it. And googling found me nothing comprehensible. Can you point me to something?
It's a secret :-) Seriously, I noticed it maybe a year or so ago and have mentioned it several times on this and other lists, but it's still not well-known. It certainly didn't exist 13 years ago. The earliest reference I can see in a quick Google is early 2010 (F12).
$ rpm -q --changelog yum-utils | grep -C1 needs-restarting * Wed Nov 04 2009 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - add needs-restarting
I noticed it had appeared in yum-utils some time in the last year or so - yum-utils is one of those packages that I infrequently do a rpm -ql yum-utils | grep bin for in case anything new has popped up - I think it's also been mentioned on the list a few times.
Regards, Bryn.