Bug 1901921

Summary:	no possibility to configure needs-restarting
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	ocs
Component:	dnf-plugins-core	Assignee:	Nicola Sella <nsella>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	34	CC:	dmach, jmracek, mblaha, nsella, packaging-team-maint, pkratoch, praiskup, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2021-06-15 07:21:11 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description ocs 2020-11-26 12:33:47 UTC

Description of problem:

no possibility to configure needs-restarting

I found this problem in CentOS 8

this:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils/issues/36
is still an issue

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: and execute:
needs-restarting


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install any non baseOS kernel (eg: elrepo kernel-ml)
2. execute needs-restarting
3.

Actual results:
No core libraries or services have been updated since boot-up.
Reboot should not be necessary.

Expected results:
Some message saying that a reboot is necessary


Additional info:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils/issues/36

Comment 1 Nicola Sella 2020-12-07 11:30:59 UTC

Hello, I think the issue can be addressed by, this[1] already released.
I added the missing documentation.[2] You can add packages that need to be restarted in configuration

Example: echo "packagename" > /etc/dnf/plugins/needs-restarting.d/packagename.conf

[1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/391
[2] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/417/

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2021-02-09 16:17:33 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle.
Changing version to 34.

Comment 3 Nicola Sella 2021-06-02 07:47:27 UTC

Hello, is there any update on the solution I proposed from #comment 1? Does it work for you?
Thank you

Comment 4 ocs 2021-06-09 09:56:16 UTC

Yes! Sorry for not providing feedback
This works like charm:
]# cat /etc/dnf/plugins/needs-restarting.d/kernel-ml.conf
kernel-ml

thank you very much

This is not related to the bug, but it is to the topic:
I also have modified the following file to prevent default kernel updates to modify grup boot priorities. (so kernel-ml is always the default boot)

]# cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if kernel-install should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
#DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-core
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-ml

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-06-15 07:21:11 UTC

FEDORA-2021-78c5f8c03d has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.