On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ruben Kerkhof <ruben(a)rubenkerkhof.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Debian and Ubuntu have a package called unattended-upgrades.
We have yum-cron which does something similar.
One difference though is that unattended-upgrade drops a script in
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/unattended-upgrades, which does this:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -d /var/run ]; then
touch /var/run/reboot-required
fi
Using Ansible, I can quickly see which servers need a reboot due to a
kernel upgrade.
I think this would be nice to have in Fedora as well, the only
question is which package
should provide it.
We have /etc/kernel/postinst.d too, but this directory is currently unowned.
So if I'd wanted to add this to some package, which one should it be
and what should it depend on?
Alternatively, I could create a new package, let's call it
'reboot-required'.
Thoughts?
Why would you want this to be something packaged? We have 'reboot
recommended' in our bodhi update metadata, and that seems like a much
better place for it. Otherwise, you run into cases where multiple
packages want to write/own the file, etc.
Also, I think "recommended" is really the appropriate terminology
here. There is very little that _requires_ a reboot to be done after
it is installed.
josh