[packagekit] Yum backend RequireReboot

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Oct 2 10:18:12 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:57 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> yum/rpm don't care if the system need a reboot to use the updated
> packages, it is only i high level gui, this kind of stuff is
> interesting.
> we could make a /etc/packagekit-backend.conf and write a list of
> reboot packages into the conf file.

I think the point is that it's a lot more preferable to be able to
specify this on a per-package basis (e.g. in the RPM spec file for each
package requiring a reboot) and then have this data propagated into the
update meta data.

     David




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