On 06/30/2011 01:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:46 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:38:34 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> [....] >>> Then you should know to run needs-restarting when it has finished to >>> check for this yourself. >> >> Maybe the OP knows, but in thirteen years of running linux >> (almost all RedHat or clones) I've never heard of it. And googling found >> me nothing comprehensible. Can you point me to something? > > It's a secret :-) Seriously, I noticed it maybe a year or so ago and > have mentioned it several times on this and other lists, but it's still > not well-known. It certainly didn't exist 13 years ago. The earliest > reference I can see in a quick Google is early 2010 (F12). $ rpm -q --changelog yum-utils | grep -C1 needs-restarting * Wed Nov 04 2009 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - add needs-restarting I noticed it had appeared in yum-utils some time in the last year or so - yum-utils is one of those packages that I infrequently do a rpm -ql yum-utils | grep bin for in case anything new has popped up - I think it's also been mentioned on the list a few times. Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
