Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:59:18 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > >> The ``/run/reboot-required`` mechanism is used when a reboot is > >> needed to fully apply the changes introduced by a package > >> installation or upgrade. Typically it is the ``postinst`` > >> maintainer script that to

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi Sean, On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:02:05 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > > It is clear to me that a reboot will occur whenever > > /var/run/reboot-required exists, regardless of the > > state of /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. > > > > It is not clear to me where reboot-required.pkgs is used. > > Your

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:10:09 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 12:04PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > +Maintainer scripts can signal that a reboot is required to fully > > apply +the changes to the system by touching > > ``/run/reboot-required`` and +addin

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:35:05 -0300 Felipe Sateler wrote: > /var/run is a compatibility symlink to /run. This paragraph should > reference /run directly. Fixed in attached patch: reboot_required_v3.patch Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- R

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is: reboot_required_v2.patch On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:10:16 -0600 "Karl O. Pinc" wrote: > Documents /var/run/reboot-required and > /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. Like v1 of the patch but adds index entries. It's not clear if this is desirable because they wo

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is: reboot_required_v1.patch Documents /var/run/reboot-required and /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein diff --git a/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst b/policy/ch-maintainerscripts

Bug#919507: Fw: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot

2019-01-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:31:56 +0500 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 06:13:17PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > P.S. Somebody on #debian-mentors was able to do a > > search today for all the packages which, I think, > > contained mention of "reboot-re

Bug#919507: debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required

2019-01-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:28:05 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > > If Debian supports user notification when reboot is required > > (or automatic rebooting) after automatic upgrade then there > > should be some consistent standard. And that standard > > should be documented. Someplace. > It seems fine

Bug#919507: Fw: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot

2019-01-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:10:04 -0600 From: "Karl O. Pinc" To: Michael Vogt , Balint Reczey Subject: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot Hello, Do you have any suggestions for updating the Debian Policy docs so that packagers know what mu

Bug#919507: Related systemd bug

2019-01-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Here is the corresponding bug report on systemd: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919509 Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#919507: debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required

2019-01-16 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8.0 Severity: normal Hi, Recent systemd security updates ( systemd (232-25+deb9u8) stretch-security; urgency=high, systemd (232-25+deb9u7) stretch-security; urgency=high) require a system reboot to take effect, but the unattended-upgrades did not tell the user