Re: Why GUI software update tool is broken for me

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On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 17:29:02 Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 15.6.2016 v 10:14 Ade napsal(a):
> > Why is this?  Well some time ago the behaviour of the tool changed and now
> > the only way to proceed is to click in "Restart and Install" and this is
> > NEVER what I want to do. I never want to reboot my desktop just to apply
> > updates, Id rather apply all the updates and reboot to bring in the new
> > kernel (if there is one) when I have the time
> Imagine two regular updates.
> 
> First you update mariadb-server package. %post is smart and it will
> condrestart the mariadb service. However...
> 
> Next day you update "pam" package which provides /usr/lib64/libpam.so.0
> which is used by mariadb service. Unless you restart your computer your
> mariadb server will continue to use old (and maybe insecure) libpam.so. Or
> unless you use dnf-plugins-extras-tracer:
>   http://dnf-plugins-extras.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tracer.html

It is a reason to restart the system (or just the services of interest) 
_after_ installing the update, but not before installing the update.

Kamil
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