On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, James Antill wrote:
Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Last week doing some noodling around I wrote up a couple of new
yum-utils but I'd like some constructive feedback on them.
first:
- shows what running programs should be restarted due to updates being
applied.
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-needs-to-be-restarted/
This isn't terrible, but it needs a few tweaks before we put it in, IMO:
1. Tell people not running as root they will get wrong data.
2. Should check more than just smaps, one obvious problem is that
python apps. only come up as python (probably the only thing to do is
parse cmdline, and then check the first arg. to python).
or just report the full cmdline - which is what it does.
3. Another big problem is to do with shared libraries, atm. I have:
james 3028 0.0 0.0 132156 3100 ? S Sep15 0:00 kerneloops-appl
/proc/3028/smaps:... 112903 /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5 (deleted)
...which doesn't exist. The file /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.6
does exist, and was installed on the 8th of Nov.
The "obvious" solution here is that anything with a (deleted) suffix
automatically means it needs to be restarted. Of course there are also
a bunch of things like:
/proc/3028/smaps:... 112902 /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0.2511.1.#prelink#.egtvwq (deleted)
...which people may/may-not appreciate getting warnings about.
yep - and I marked a fixme/todo in the code about just that subject.
4. Might be nice to integrate history in the output.
history of what? The pkgs? Seems like if the user wants info afterward
they can use rpm --changelog and yum history to their content.
second:
a command-line pipes/parsing "friendly" yum-util.
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/playing-with-another-yum-util/
This one makes me twitch.
it makes me angry, too. You know what makes me more angry - reading
ridiculous comments about yum not producing machine-parseable output and
result codes and having cracktastic code like I saw in the spline perl
module.
-sv
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