On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 14:44 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:29:02AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 18:39 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > And for those not so happy with tracer, there's also another tool:
> > > dnf.plugin.needs_restarting ("dnf needs-restarting")
> >
> > AFAIK tracer is a rewritten and expanded version of needs-restarting.
>
> Ed Greshko a little earler in this thread was writing about rpm
> database lockings that might be related to tracer. And you also
> weren't sure in your answer about the issue, IIUC. That was the main
> reason I mentioned "dnf needs-restarting" .. Just in case someone is
> trying to avoid usage of tracer at any cost ... :)
>
> And no: I do not have specific knowledge about "dnf needs-restarting":
> just used it a few times ..
IIRC needs-restarting also locks the RPM database, but otherwise I'm
not really clear on the differences, except that apparently tracer
supports other package managers as well as dnf. It also seems to be
trying to offer more interactivity about what to restart and why, but I
don't generally bother with that.
poc
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