Updating methods

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Richard,

On Saturday 15 August 2009 12:04 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Basically, the problem is that Linux is quite capable of running old
> versions of libraries that no longer exist. But imagine this scenario:
>
<...snip>
> So sure, you don't /have/ to reboot, but you're not going to get the
> benefit (or the protection) of the newly installed updates until you
> do. Thinking otherwise is incorrect. You might have thought that Linux
> is magic and can update shared libraries behind the scenes and
> programs automatically switch to the new installed instance, but it
> can't, sorry.
>

I think I have noticed this a number of times, but I am not exactly 
sure. PackageKit seems to not differentiate between logouts and 
restarts. So after kernel updates it would say restart is needed which 
is perfectly reasonable, but it would say the same for something 
requiring just a logout. Am I remembering incorrectly or have others 
noticed this too? If that is indeed the case then the OP's problems 
might be related and this could be a bug in packagekit.

Thank you.

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Suvayu

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