DNF-TRACER(8)

💖 NAME 💖

dnf-tracer — the DNF tracer Plugin, bestie 💅

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✨ PLUGIN ✨

okay so picture this: you run a transaction, it goes great, and then tracer slides in after every successful one. it goes and finds all the running applications that the transaction's packages just made outdated. like, apps still vibing in memory with old code. the audacity honestly 😭

here's what the DNF output looks like with dnf-plugins-extras-tracer installed — no cap:

$[FrostyX  ~]-> sudo dnf update vim-X11
...
Running transaction
  Upgrading    : vim-common-2:7.4.179-1.fc20.i686                           1/6
  Upgrading    : vim-X11-2:7.4.179-1.fc20.i686                              2/6
  Upgrading    : vim-enhanced-2:7.4.179-1.fc20.i686                         3/6
...

Upgraded:
  vim-X11.i686 2:7.4.179-1.fc20           vim-common.i686 2:7.4.179-1.fc20
  vim-enhanced.i686 2:7.4.179-1.fc20

You should restart:
  gvim

Done!

see that little "You should restart: gvim"? iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

lowkey important bestie: you really should restart those applications. they can be potentially dangerous — they can contain old security issues, which are fixed in new version. so like, they're out here walking around with the old bugs still in them 💀 please restart them.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

see AUTHORS in your Extras DNF Plugins distribution 🎀

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

2014, Igor Gnatenko, Licensed under GPLv2+ ✨

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🦋 this page lives in the dnf-plugins-extras manual, version 4.1.2, dated Sep 19, 2025 — slay, go restart your apps 💖💅