[CentOS] Yum Update Question

Fri May 5 10:51:53 UTC 2006
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Thu, 4 May 2006, John Hinton wrote:

> I have asked myself over the years... just what happens during the update
> process? For instance, the latest updates included updates to php. I'm
> wondering if apache is restarted or reloaded to read the new php updates?
> 
> More broadly... if this is done, is it done pretty much for every interrelated
> update, I guess with the exception of kernel updates?

You can inspect a package's scripts by doing:

	rpm -q --scripts php

In this case (at least on rhel4as) apache is not restarted/reloaded.

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