Package: needrestart Version: 2.11-4 Severity: wishlist Please detect the need to reboot to apply AMD microcode updates.
The amd64-microcode maintainer suggested that this could be done by detecting that the initramfs is newer than uptime, and if so, look at the microcode files in the package and check if they are newer than uptime but older than the initramfs. If the microcode files are newer than the initramfs and newer than the uptime there could be a warning. $ apt-file show amd64-microcode | grep ucode amd64-microcode: /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin amd64-microcode: /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin amd64-microcode: /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin This might require packaging the Unix::Uptime CPAN module: https://metacpan.org/pod/Unix::Uptime https://github.com/pioto/Unix-Uptime Until that happens, you could parse /proc/uptime manually. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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