full-disclosure - Security Updates Without Rebooting

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Date: Mon Nov 14 18:18:38 2005
From: marco.ermini at gmail.com (Marco Ermini)
Subject: Security Updates Without Rebooting

On 11/8/05, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
[...]
> Note that rpm will only do that if the person who packaged the updated RPM
> specified a 'postinstall' scriptlet requesting it.  So RPM *can* restart a
> daemon, but it's a function of the package, not of rpm.
[...]

Sorry for the late posting...  it's an RPM specification that RPM
package installation should perform completely unattended. Restarting
a daemon is possible in the postinstall script but it seems a task
which should be asked to the sysadmin to be performed or not (like APT
and DEB packages did - but they are NOT assumed to be performed
unattended).

Cheers
--
Marco Ermini
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