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Friday, January 9. 2009
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Is it necessary to reboot each time?
It's something wrong there with the SUSE. There is no such requirements in Debian, only if you update kernel and (maybe) glibc.
OdyX: not my choice... :-)
Andrii: I have not investigated. I did not reboot, and nothing bad happened at all. Not even a KDE crash, which I know doesn't like at all its libraries being changed under its feet.
I guess it's 11.0, since it's at least 2 months old.
If opensuseupdater plays tricks on you, why not try using more reliable and powerful tools like the command line tool "zypper" or YaST Online Update.
openSUSE only asks for reboots for kernel updates - and you're not forced to do it right away, you can reboot when you damn please.
Updates for the package management stack, will require restart of the update process - as these updates are installed first. I think this makes perfect sense.
But, nevertheless, openSUSE updater in 11.0 follows the openSUSE tradition of buggy updater applets. In 11.1 it's renamed KUpdateapplet and uses packagekit backend by default - meaning a lot of fun awaits you there too ;-)
in 11.2 the kpackagekit updater applet is expected to be used - that should ensure that the tradition is continued.
But a smart guy like you, should know there are other ways...
It was yast, not the updater applet. I didn't count how many times I was asked to restart and (after some point) how many times the updater just quit. By the way: zypper showed the same behaviour, almost (I changed to zypper after the first 10 times or so the yast updater module kept annoying me): while it didn't ask me to reboot, "zypper dist-upgrade" would update a few packages, after which another run would update a few more packages. I had to do this 5 or 6 times at least. At least, wonder of wonders, the package database didn't get corrupted or end up in dependency hell. (Suffice to say that the result of the whole exercise, namely to get an updated laptop plus dvd player application, was for naught first because the laptop had a problem with sound which I didn't solve and then because the crappy dvd drive of the 2nd laptop I tried couldn't read the disc I wanted it to play. We had a dvd player -- you know, one of those black/dark gray boxes -- handy we cold use in the end...)
I have never experienced such a behaviour.
You must have done something wrong.
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