yum update

[Chris G]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:56 -0400, Gene Poole wrote:
> > > I started using yum to update my systems as-soon-as 'up2date' was no
> > > longer supported.  So, I have friends and people I work with asking me
> > > for a 'rule of thumb', which I don't know.  So, I'm asking the member of
> > > this list:
> > >
> > >    What is the 'rule of thumb' for re-booting after the completion of the
> > >    'yum -y update' command? How do you know if you should re-boot - if
> > >    there is a kernel update? Should you reboot based upon what key
> > >    components have been updated?  How do you know what's been updated if
> > >    you schedule it to run at 2 AM?  Do you ever have to re-boot?
> > >
> > > I don't have a answer to these questions, do you?
> >
> > AFAIK there isn't a hard and fast rule. You need to look at what yum has
> > updated. Thus if it changed the kernel or libc, you should reboot
> > whenever convenient. If it changed an X driver or the X server, or the
> > basic part of your desktop manager, you'll want to logout and in again,
> > usually restarting X in the process. If it changed a running
> > application, quit the app and restart it, etc. etc.
> >
> > I agree it would be nice for yum to tell you this explicitly.
> >
> If you install logwatch you will get a daily update of many activities, 
> including a section like this:
>  --------------------- yum Begin ------------------------ 
> 
>  
>  Packages Installed:
>     kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
>     mozilla-filesystem-1.9-2.fc9.i386
>     initscripts-8.76-1.i386
>     adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
>  
>  Packages Updated:
>     upstart-0.3.9-19.fc9.i386
>     libxslt-1.1.23-3.fc9.i386
>     hal-libs-0.5.11-0.7.rc2.fc9.i386
>     libdrm-2.4.0-0.11.fc9.i386
>     libtdb-1.1.1-9.fc9.i386
>     system-config-printer-0.7.82.2-4.fc9.i386
>     6:kdelibs-common-4.0.3-7.fc9.i386
>     ....
>     xorg-x11-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
>     kdebase-workspace-libs-4.0.3-20.fc9.i386
>     mesa-libGL-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386
>     nash-6.0.52-2.fc9.i386
>  
>  Packages Erased:
>     event-compat-sysv
>  
>  ---------------------- yum End -------------------------
> 
... and how does that help the OP decide what (s)he needs to restart
after doing a yum update?

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Chris Green