Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:16:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 
> > Forced reboot on upgrade is damage.  Let's learn from errors of others.
> 
> needrestart has a mechanism (needrestart-session) to hook into user
> sessions, perhaps that could be extended to request users reboot for
> security updates.

But that does not help here.

Steve was saying:
  that's not so useful on a remote server installation where
  there's no desktop for the system to show a pop-up or similar.
and
  We're *definitely* going to do it for cloud images

Any "solution" for the reboot problem that assumes that there is a user 
who regularly logs into the machine misses the problem.

> bye,
> pabs

cu
Adrian

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