On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 08:16 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ruben Kerkhof <ru...@rubenkerkhof.co > m> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Debian and Ubuntu have a package called unattended-upgrades. > > We have yum-cron which does something similar. > > > > One difference though is that unattended-upgrade drops a script in > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/unattended-upgrades, which does this: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ -d /var/run ]; then > > touch /var/run/reboot-required > > fi > > > > Using Ansible, I can quickly see which servers need a reboot due to > > a > > kernel upgrade. > > > > I think this would be nice to have in Fedora as well, the only > > question is which package > > should provide it. > > > > We have /etc/kernel/postinst.d too, but this directory is currently > > unowned. > > So if I'd wanted to add this to some package, which one should it > > be > > and what should it depend on? > > > > Alternatively, I could create a new package, let's call it 'reboot- > > required'. > > > > Thoughts? > Why would you want this to be something packaged? We have 'reboot > recommended' in our bodhi update metadata, and that seems like a much > better place for it. Otherwise, you run into cases where multiple > packages want to write/own the file, etc. > > Also, I think "recommended" is really the appropriate terminology > here. There is very little that _requires_ a reboot to be done after > it is installed.
How can this metadata be leveraged with automation? I have the dnf tracer plugin which I believe is using this metadata to tell me when I need to reboot, but what if I have this in a cron job? -- John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
