> I know most packages upgrade will be fine but I am a bit worried about > applying security patches to mysql, libc6 and kernel. > > MySQL is probably going to restart properly though. AFAIK, upgrading the > libc6 might need to restart a various number of daemons, I usually do a > full restart of the server when it happens. > > When upgrading kernel, I noticed dpkg prompt about a local configuration > change to grub.lst. Keeping local configuration is fine, but choosing > the package provided list render the instance unbootable. Also the > previous kernel are sticking in which can fill the hard drive quickly on > the smallest (10GB) instances. > \> A pam related package has a similar issue since it attempts to overwrite > the configuration to connect to LDAP. > > I am probably a bit paranoid though. >
For both PAM and the kernel, if you accept the defaults everything should continue to work. Unattended upgrades will automatically select the defaults. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
