packages requiring me to reboot...

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Richard Hughes wrote:

> 2009/12/15 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>> Now, having said that - how would you feel if the updater stopped you before
>> it ran and said "you're running an app I'm trying to update, please close
>> the app so I can update it". Would that be a pain or ok?
>
> That's exactly the PackageKit functionality I've added for packages
> like firefox, that explode internally when they get updated. The trick
> it to offer to close them down, and bring them back when done.
>

this is what colin and I talked about at fudcon in toronto. I just added 
some code to yum so it returns to you a list of all pkgs on the system 
that own a file that is currently open/used in a running process.

should make that part of your lookup easier.

YumBase.rpmdb.return_running_packages()

-sv