[packagekit] [RFE] Reboot on upgrade ???

Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 09:29:09 PST 2007


Hi,

On Nov 17, 2007 9:07 PM, Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2007 8:34 PM, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 2007 10:51 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 16:34 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > > > pup has a nice functionality in having dialog box "Rebooting
> > > > required? [Now] [Later]" when some low-level important packages
> > > > (e.g., kernel, glibc, hal, etc.) are upgraded. I am not sure
> > > > (will investigate) whether pup gets information about which
> > > > packages requires restart somewhere from some metada or it has
> > > > hard-wired list in its code
> > > hard coded IIRC.
> > It's in the metadata, too, but pup (until recently) ignored the
> > metadata and just used a hard coded list.  Now I think it checks
> > against metadata AND the list.
> Really ? How do I put it in the metadata ? Bodhi doesn't seem to
> expose that, at least.
Not sure, I just noticed it when looking through some yum code.  Luke,
do you know?

--Ray



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