Control: reassign -1 needrestart On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 17:29 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: linux-base > Version: 4.5 > Severity: wishlist > > We use the following line from cron to remind us to reboot > a machine, if the initrd for the currently running kernel has been > updated: > > test /proc -nt /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) || echo reboot required > > Would you be open to the idea to provide such functionality from > linux-base? > > I'd be happy to extend it to make it work for systems without > initrd, as well as in the case of kernel version upgrades > (configurable), but I'd want to gauge first if this is the right > place for such a script. > > If you don't think linux-base is the place for this, please > reassign.
There are several packages that already check whether the running kernel (and userland processes) match the installed versions, so it doesn't make sense to me that linux-base would implement just this check. Reassigning this to needrestart as that's the one I'm familiar with and it doesn't appear to do this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot.
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