tags 842512 upstream fixed-upstream
thanks
Hi Antoine,
Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> writes:
> It is unclear to me whether installing this package alongside a
> properly configured "unattended-upgrade" package will do the right
> thing (that is, automatically restart services).
it depends, I do not think that everybody will agree (security
vs. stability).
> I am unsure because the default config (needrestart.conf) has the
> following entry, which I assume to be the default:
>
> # Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
> #$nrconf{restart} = 'i';
>
> It *looks* like things work, because on the server where I have both
> setup, running needrestart by hand tells me everything is fine. Is it
> that "a" is the default, or that needrestart can tell there's no
> terminal, or what?
The default is interactive mode. Recently, several bugs have been fixed
regarding the detection of non-interactive runs. So unfortunately
needrestart 2.12+ might now behave different if run non-interactive
while the list mode is configured (which is the default).
> It would be great if this is documented better (i looked, without
> luck, in the manpage and readme files).
I've added a short warning to the manpage, the default config and the
NEWS file.
@Patrick: Maybe you should add a NEWS.Debian on this?
HTH,
Thomas
> Thanks!
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> needrestart output:
> Your outdated processes:
> chromium[13772]
>
> checkrestart output:
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.6
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
> 'stable'), (1, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
> ii dpkg 1.17.27
> ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2
> ii libintl-perl 1.23-1+deb8u1
> ii libmodule-find-perl 0.12-1
> ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.16-1
> ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.51-1
> ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1
> ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.32-1+b1
> ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6
> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
>
> needrestart recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages needrestart suggests:
> ii libnotify-bin 0.7.6-2
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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