needs-restarting should be checked for before installing packages?

[voiprodrigo]

Hi,

For CentOS/RHEL systems, needs-restarting of the yum-utils package is used to evaluate if the system needs to be rebooted. However, at this stage, updates were already launched. I think it would be useful to check first and only launch the update task if needs-restarting is available, as the normal plan workflow will not attempt reboot if there's no updates to install.

The error in question:

...
Starting: task patching::reboot_required on 192.168.58.129
Finished: task patching::reboot_required with 1 failure in 1.59 sec
Finished: plan patching::reboot_required in 1.64 sec
Finished: plan test_patching in 4 min, 58 sec
Failed on 192.168.58.129:
  The task failed with exit code 4:
  ERROR - /usr/bin/needs-restarting isn't present on a RedHat/CentOS host. You probably need to install the package: yum-utils
Failed on 1 target: 192.168.58.129

If I then try a rerun:

...
Starting: task patching::update_history on 192.168.58.129
Finished: task patching::update_history with 0 failures in 0.66 sec
host                           | upgraded | installed
-----------------------------------------------------
192.168.58.129                 | 150      | 0
Finished: plan patching::update_history in 0.75 sec
Finished: plan test_patching in 5.19 sec
Plan completed successfully with no result

Any thoughts on this?

Regards.