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Re: unattended-upgrades by default?



Quoting Guido Günther (2016-11-04 12:26:51)
> We should also enable needsrestart, whatmaps, checkrestart or similar 
> to restart affected services after these upgrades otherwise the e.g. 
> openssl update might go without effect until openssh, bind, 
> <younameit> get restarted manually or rebooted.

needrestart (notice: only one "s") works out of the box, hooking into 
APT by scanning after each APT run and emitting warnings both in APT 
session and (with needrestart-session installed) in X11 user session.

checkrestart is in package debian-goodies.  I don't use it but believe 
it is not integrated with default APT package handling workflow.

I was unaware of whatmaps.  Thanks for promoting that, Guido.  Seems 
from its package description that it doesn't integrate with APT out of 
the box either - is that correct?

If noone shouts out correcting my vague assessment here, I suggest we go 
with needrestart!


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