Re: yum update

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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.

poc


Library updates, even glibc, are handled gracefully without reboot. I only reboot for kernel and selinux-policy* updates, and I'm not even 100% sure that's still necessary for the latter, though if someone wants to clarify that, please chime in.

-- Chris

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