[Yum-devel] errata/update notice parsing/handling

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 18:45 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >  See attached update_md.py and errata.xml
> > 
> > I made one change of adding a title element to the update object.
> 
> Based on the recent experience of the pam 0.80 update really requiring a
> reboot (because already running apps could no longer use pam modules.
> neat!), does it make sense to add an 'rebooted_suggested' flag that
> could be set?  I would expect that it would go unused in 99% of cases,
> but it would be handy for a few things like kernel updates, glibc,
> etc.  
> 
> And it's better than the hack I have in pup right now ;-)
> 

that seems like a good idea - but maybe it should be an item added to
the package element inside the update?

b/c obviously not necessarily all packages in an update will need a
reboot.

-sv