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.