gnu linux update question

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 07/05/2011 08:37 PM, 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?
> 

Afaik this one needs running by hand right now - although it doesn't seem like
it would be too much work to have it run automatically at the end of a yum update.

Cheers,
Bryn.