Re: unattended-upgrades by default?
Scott Kitterman, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:27:58 -0500, wrote:
> On Sunday, December 25, 2016 06:36:52 AM Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Paul van der Vlis, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:34:15 +0100, wrote:
> > > I would like it when
> > > desktop users could get a message that programms has to be restarted.
> > > Not sure this is important for servers too, I would think so.
> >
> > In a mail server we have, the mysql upgrades are problematic: while the
> > sql server is off, postgresql reports that mailboxes (whose entries are
> > stored in the sql database) don't exist, i.e. a permanent fatal error,
> > and mails then get lost. We haven't found how to make postgresql return
> > a temporary error instead, and so we have to be careful, when upgrading
> > mysql, to keep postgresql stopped until mysql is restarted.
>
> That's hardly a standard situation.
Sure.
> I don't think configurations like this
> are particularly relevant to what should be in the default install.
Yes, but that's a data point to have in mind: blindly upgrading software
is not always without consequences.
Samuel
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