[CentOS] CentOS 7 (1511) is released

[Zdenek Sedlak]

On 12/15/2015 03:51 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 15.12.2015 um 14:31 schrieb Zdenek Sedlak <dev at apgrco.com>:
>> On 12/15/2015 02:23 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> On 15.12.2015 03:22, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/2015 3:46 PM, Wes James wrote:
>>>>
>>>> most service updates will restart the service
>>>
>>> Will they? That sound like a pretty terrible idea.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  Dennis
>>>
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>> No they don't (opposite to e.g. Debian).
> 
> 
> 
> If updated via rpm/yum, they do a "condrestart", but OPs 
> context is an 7.1503 to 7.1511 "upgrade". Thus, the execution 
> environment changes significantly (glibc, kernel etc.) and 
> this should be addressed with a reboot. If in the future only 
> a "service" (e.g. httpd) gets an update, then rpm handles the 
> restarting process of the running service.
> 
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Thank for the explanation. When did this change? I always believed the
running daemon is not touched by rpm/yum...

IMHO this is a dangerous behaviour because of possible configuration
changes which need to be merged first...


//Zdenek