Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/04/2016 01:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Strictly speaking it's not necessary for every update, there's just no
>> mechanism for knowing for sure what updates entail more risk than
>> others. You'll notice that once an application is installed, whether
>> by dnf or Gnome Software, it's considered part of the system. There's
>> no separation of OS upgrades from application updates. The former
>> entail a lot more risk than the latter. In the near future, I expect
>> flatpak applications can be updated in place, once complete you'd get
>> a prompt to relaunch the application to use the update one, or
>> something like that.
>
>
> dnf install python3-dnf-plugins-extras-tracer

That's cool but it's not the default behavior, and it also doesn't
come in advance as part of all the information what will be updated.
It'd be useful to know what needs restarting, including if a reboot is
needed.

Looks like this might also be useful, but isn't included by default.
http://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/needs_restarting.html



-- 
Chris Murphy
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