Are "restart after updates" really necessary?
Rather often (about once every 2 days) the "Software" application will tell that there "OS Updates". The OS updates sometimes are kernel updates but other times are just secondary compiler tools and such (e.g clang
, mesa
). Apparently, the only way of accepting this updates is to click into the "Restart and Install" uptades button. Which has the drawback that I will need to restart the session.
If do yum upgrade
instead, these same updates will be installed (obviously not all of the them --like the kernel-- will be in use before I restart, but I don't mind that). The Software center will not complain anymore. This behavior makes me think that the restart was mostly unnecesary in the first place.
There are two questions:
1) If don't do anything, will these "OS updates" be installed anyway? In other words, is the work around yum upgrade
necessary?
2) Is there a GUI way to install (or accept) the updates without restarting?
(I have Fedora 21 but this is common to all previous installation.)
Guided by @arehtykitna answer, I found
yum-cron-security
package which apparently solves this problem by automatically installing the security updates dialy. I'll check it out. I am not sure if that includes all the "OS updates". https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/yum-cron-securityalso there is yum-plugin-ps. When this plugin is installed it adds the yum command "ps", which allows you to see which running processes are accociated with which packages (and if they need rebooting, or have updates, etc.)