Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:18:35 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 29, 2018 03:35:58 AM Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 29 January 2018 at 07:52, Dextin Jerafmel > > wrote: > > > I tried to search for available Kernel images but there isn't any > > > newer

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Mon 29 Jan 2018 at 13:43:20 (+), Joe wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:18:35 -0500 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I regularly download "security" upgrades for Wheezy. I assume that > > most of those don't take effect until I restart the application. For > > instance, a Firefox

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Boyan Penkov
Does checkrestart (apt-get install checkrestart) prompt for application restarts on library updates, or only for daemons? On Jan 29, 2018 08:43, "Joe" wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:18:35 -0500 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I regularly download "security"

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:18:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > iiuc, the fixes for Spectre and Meltdown have been "backported" > (probably not the right word) to Wheezy (which is my "everyday" > machine). If I'm wrong about that, somebody can let me know. The confusion here is that

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:18:35AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I regularly download "security" upgrades for Wheezy. I assume that most of > those don't take effect until I restart the application. For instance, a > Firefox upgrade does not take effect until I shutdown Firefox and

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Joe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:18:35 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I regularly download "security" upgrades for Wheezy. I assume that > most of those don't take effect until I restart the application. For > instance, a Firefox upgrade does not take effect until I shutdown > Firefox and restart