On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 02:56:59PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > 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.
I meant needrestart and looks like the most featurefull of the three. > > 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? It integrates with apt by creating a interim restart script which is then run automatically after the upgrade via DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs and DPkg::Post-Invoke. Cheers, -- Guido