gnu linux update question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 19:37 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 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?

You run it yourself from a Shell. I don't know if any of the magic
package UI stuff also does this, but I don't use any of that.

poc