Bug 1810123
| Summary: | [RFE] Provide ability to add packages to the needs-restarting plugin configuration. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Kyle Walker <kwalker> |
| Component: | dnf-plugins-core | Assignee: | Nicola Sella <nsella> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Luca Berton <lberton> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 8.1 | CC: | amatej, james.antill, lberton, mdomonko, nsella, pkratoch |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Triaged |
| Target Release: | 8.3 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | dnf-plugins-core-4.0.17-2.el8 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: |
Feature:
The needs-restarting dnf plugin supports user-defined package lists. If a package from the package list gets updated, the plugin suggests rebooting the system.
Reason:
Result:
Users can place their *.conf files under /etc/dnf/plugins/needs-restarting.d/.
The files contain package names, one at each line.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-11-04 01:52:51 UTC | Type: | Feature Request |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/391 TEST: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/pull/814 Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (yum bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:4510 |
Description of problem: Right now, the list of packages that are checked is a static list. plugins/needs_restarting.py <snip> # For which package updates we should recommend a reboot # Mostly taken from https://access.redhat.com/solutions/27943 NEED_REBOOT = ['kernel', 'glibc', 'linux-firmware', 'systemd', 'dbus', 'dbus-broker', 'dbus-daemon'] <snip> This results in the need to rebuild each time a new package name is added to the list. This feature is requesting that the plugin provide the ability to add packages to the needs-restarting plugin via a drop-in. Similar to the following: # echo “kernel-rt” > /etc/dnf/plugins/needs-restarting.d/kernel-rt.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-plugins-core-4.0.8-3.el8.noarch Steps to Reproduce: Add a package to the needs-restarting plugin Actual results: 1. Add the package to the static list 2. Rebuild the package Expected results: 1. Add a drop-in to the /etc/dnf/plugins/needs-restarting.d/ directory Additional info: This was discussed in the context of the following bug report. 1806060 – 'needs-restarting -r' does not show that a reboot is required after updating the RT kernel in RHEL 7.6. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806060 A related effort to this request would be to also include the "kernel-rt" package as a new drop-in which would ship along with this RFE.