On 07/05/2011 08:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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.
The desktop PackageKit stuff should handle this itself (I don't think it calls out to the script - see the backends for the different update management tools. I think pkcon will notify you of this from the command line if you use it to install updates rather than running yum directly. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
