Am 30.01.14 20:31, schrieb Robie Basak: > It might also be worth considering what users already use to monitor > their machines for updates, and to provide alerts by patching those > mechanisms. For example, we might SRU a patch to the check_apt nagios > plugin to pick up the EOL kernel state and present it as a warning or > failure.
Depending on such an implementation (for example adding those feature with a switch) we may include this patch in Debian. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244438 Title: EOL notification system required for HWE kernels in LTSs Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: New Status in “landscape” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “nagios-plugins” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “update-motd” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: We need to have some mechanism to allow us to record that you have an EOL kernel installed which will no longer recieve updates. For example for the kernel when a kernel is going EOL the last upload should include an appropriate file: /var/lib/update-notifier/kernel-eol We need to coordinate this with the notifier itself to ensure it is displayed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1244438/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
