Re: When are security updates effective?
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > Could Debian security advisories help a bit, since the people making the
> > packaging changes propably know how to make the changes effective on a
> > running installation too?
>
> If there's anything special to do (e.g. kernel or glibc) we alredy add this
> to the DSA text.
Yes, that's great, but some of the non-special cases are not that
obvious. Should I reboot or at least restart kdm after libtiff4 update?
On one host I get the feeling I don't since 'lsof 2>/dev/null | grep libtiff'
returns nothing. Then again this would suggest, that at least kde/kdm
needs to be restarted:
# apt-cache rdepends libtiff4|grep kde
kdelibs4
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins
So which one is it?
update-notifier seems nice, but how does it know what to do? I looked at
the code but couldn't see how it knows when to reboot and when package
upgrade is enough.
-Mikko
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