gnu linux update question

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:57:44 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> On 06/30/2011 01:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
	[....]
>> 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.

	Oh good: if it's in yum-utils I have it on all machines. So does 
it run itself, like at least some of the other things in that package? Or 
should I be invoking it on occasion?



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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
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