Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-02 Thread Dennis J.
On 08/27/2009 07:49 PM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). Is

Re: Reboot madness? [Was: Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?]

2009-09-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2009/9/1 Dariusz J. Garbowski thufo...@yahoo.co.uk: I'm starting to be really bothered by this. Today kdenetwork requires restart due to... fix Bug 515586 - Kopete: New Messages from changed resource arrive in new tab/window. Wouldn't login/logout sequence do? And that only if the user really

Re: Reboot madness? [Was: Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?]

2009-09-02 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogensmo...@gmail.com wrote: I think that the selling point is over-sold. It is true in many case for servers, but desktops are a much more interconnected system where updating something deep requires a lot of restarts.. and yes you could come up

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-02 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Dennis J. wrote: On 08/27/2009 07:49 PM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-02 Thread Dariusz J. Garbowski
On 09/02/2009 02:33 PM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Dennis J. wrote: On 08/27/2009 07:49 PM, David Cantrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
David Cantrell wrote: But I explained in the previous reply how to cycle the interface using either the network service or NetworkManager. I still view this as something more technical users will be familiar with and for the average user, simply rebooting the system is the easiest method. No,

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-01 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Matthew Woehlkemw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: No, the easiest method is: The following updates require their respective services to be restarted for the updates to take effect. List of services. Proceed? [Yes] [No] I don't think it makes sense to treat

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-09-01 Thread Björn Persson
Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Matthew Woehlkemw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: No, the easiest method is: The following updates require their respective services to be restarted for the updates to take effect. List of services. Proceed? [Yes] [No] I don't

Reboot madness? [Was: Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?]

2009-09-01 Thread Dariusz J. Garbowski
I'm starting to be really bothered by this. Today kdenetwork requires restart due to... fix Bug 515586 - Kopete: New Messages from changed resource arrive in new tab/window. Wouldn't login/logout sequence do? And that only if the user really cared, i.e. was using Kopete and this bug was really

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-08-28 Thread Christof Damian
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 22:54, Matthew Woehlkemw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). This is a real shame. One of the

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-08-28 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). This is a real shame. One

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). Is this necessary for dhclient and dhcp update

Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-08-27 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). This is a real shame. One of the selling points of Linux is that you *don't* need to reboot for every little upgrade

dhclient and dhcp update require restart?

2009-08-26 Thread Dariusz J. Garbowski
Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the time). Is this necessary for dhclient and dhcp update packages to require restart? Wouldn't service network restart and service dhcpd restart in the