packages requiring me to reboot...
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 16 16:43:22 UTC 2009
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> So again today, I see some updates two of which require a full system reboot.
>
> nfs-utils and ibus-rawcode. My system seriously needs to be shut down for
> those to be properly updated? This is what I don't get. nfs-utils never got a
> system reboot before, it doesn't get one on RHEL/Centos boxes... What
> requires a reboot here? Again, I don't want the tone of this email to come
> off as anger, rude or whatever, mainly I'm wondering why so many packages
> require a reboot, why isn't nfs-utils just restarting any services it has or
> that depend on it if needed? Is that not reliable?
>
you're an experienced user? You're comfortable knowing what does and what
does not require a reboot? Then why are you using PK?
Disable pk and do the updates directly via yum.
Bam - no more requests to reboot.
-sv
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