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

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:07 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 19:44 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure, although I think that installing half of the packages from an
> update is kind of silly and doesn't work in the normal case due to
> dependencies :-)

well - that's true - if you actually NEED all the packages in an update.

you may need httpd, but not mod_ssl, for example, if you don't have
mod_ssl installed.

now, neither of those need a reboot, of course, but you get my point.


-sv