On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 07:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/07/2017 11:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > The best thing to do after an update via dnf is to run "dnf > > > needs-restarting". This > > > will give you a list of processes that could potentially be impacted by > > > the last > > > update by, for example, some libraries being updated. > > > > AFAIK this has now been deprecated in favour of 'tracer' (standalone > > command). Also the dnf.plugin.tracer plugin. > > > > I rarely use needs-restarting. On the issue of tracer I actually tried it > and hate > it more than needs-restarting. > > As Matthew pointed out, needs-restarting is rather slow. But, at least you > can elect > to run it. With the tracer plugin it runs after every successful dnf run and > it is > no faster than needs-restarting. Additionally, I found it interfered with > the akmod > process update of nVidia drivers when the kernel was updated.
True that it's no faster, but it does have options that can give more information and hints about what to do. Not in all cases though. It will often say "restart foo manually" and you have to investigate how to do that because it doesn't know, which can be a challenge when foo is some daemon you aren't familiar with and was originally started at boot time. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
