-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-02 at 03:28 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
James Knott wrote:
When I do an update with Yast, it automagically restarts the affected services, if needed.
Is this really so? If a library that's used by your X server is updated (recently: the Kerberos library), is the X server restarted? I.e., are all users forcefully logged out, loosing all their work with all open applications?
No :-) No, that does not happen. If, for example, there is an update to sshd, it is restarted. Connected users are not disconnected, IIRC. This only happens for services, and not all of them. I think it is a postinstall script in the rpm package that does it, so it will work with any package manager.
I don't use YaST, I use zypper for updates, it's automated in our infrastructure. zypper didn't restart X, and I thank the openSUSE devs that it didn't do so. I don't like loosing my work... ;-)
If there is an update to X or some important application that you are using, there is a chance that it crashes. For example, libreoffice. You click something that needs a component that was not yet loaded from disk. And as you did an update, that component on disk is a different version... and LO crashes. Well, LO saves periodically your work, so you are mostly fine. But it can happen to something else. A KDE update... Never automate updates. Stop working on important things while they are applied.
Have you assured yourself, after your YaST update, with "zypper ps", that no program uses still any of the updated libraries? Honestly, I doubt that you did so. That you're writing about doing updates with YaST without any reference to zypper shows it.
Yes, YaST does not do the check, it says nothing. The "zypper ps" feature is only in zypper. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFaOn0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UyCACcDyY932KYUOyC5UFaXp2qiRiQ ChgAoIYWz7kn/795FGTIAu8pWPTay41k =uHIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org