Using those commands a few times, it is nice to be able to trigger the offline updates from DNF now.
I was wondering if anyone might have an idea how to determine in DNF when a package requires offline-upgrade vs a basic upgrade . Akin to how Gnome Software or KDE Discover seem, able to do this. Is there a flag about the packages that DNF could output in a bash script? Or some other way to look at that?
I don’t know if it helps: man dnf needs-restarting
It depends a bit on your specification of your computer. In my case I do not use the offline upgrade. I do decide depending of the updates if i will reboot or not.
If I see that there is an update for pipewire, wireplumber or alsa, i do wait till after a meeting when I have to use zoom for example.
I do go thru the list of updates before press yes to continue, so i always can avoid problems or surprises. If i do see that there is a kernel update i do it before switch off the computer and restart it again to see if everything still works as it should.
I’m not aware of a way to ascertain this before the update. dnf needs-restarting will tell you after you’ve run an upgrade, and so will the dnf tracer plugin:
Do Gnome software/Discover really only suggest reboots sometimes? I thought they always only update on reboots, unless the updates are for Flatpaks which do not need rebooting.
You could do it manually by making a list of packages that normally require a reboot and check that vs the output of dnf check-updates and do offline-update based on that.