Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Debian updates/ rebooting question

The Ubuntu Security Announce list details what requires a reboot:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce

kernel:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1878-1/

dbus:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1874-1/

Its should be more than what requires a reboot though: what package upgrades are going to affect the applications and services that run on a specific machine? I don't think you can script that.

These packages might be of interest:

apt-listchanges
apt-listbugs (I think this is in the ubuntu repos(?), I'm a more of a Debian user)

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Libby <alibby@xforty.com> wrote:

Hi Folks,

I manage a number of ubuntu systems for customers. We apply
updates, review logs, deal with incidents, yadda yadda.

So when informing a customer that we're going to apply some
updates, I'd like to be able to tell them ahead of time
if the updates will require a reboot. I'm hoping I'm
missing something simple, but it does not seem straight
forward.

Here's what I've come up with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --download-only upgrade

For each of the packages listed under

"The following packages will be upgraded:"

dpkg-deb --control package-name

grep -rn notify-reboot-required DEBIAN

Essentially, if anything in the control area
of the package contains notify-reboot-required, it's
likely to touch /var/run/reboot-required.

Their an easier method to tell ahead of time that anyone
knows?

Thanks,

Andy

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Andrew Libby
xforty technologies
http://xforty.com
alibby@xforty.com

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