[Labs-l] Be warned: unattended-upgrades are coming

[Ryan Lane]

> I know most packages upgrade will be fine but I am a bit worried about
> applying security patches to mysql, libc6 and kernel.
>
> MySQL is probably going to restart properly though. AFAIK, upgrading the
> libc6 might need to restart a various number of daemons, I usually do a
> full restart of the server when it happens.
>
> When upgrading kernel, I noticed dpkg prompt about a local configuration
> change to grub.lst. Keeping local configuration is fine, but choosing
> the package provided list render the instance unbootable. Also the
> previous kernel are sticking in which can fill the hard drive quickly on
> the smallest (10GB) instances.
>
\> A pam related package has a similar issue since it attempts to overwrite
> the configuration to connect to LDAP.
>
> I am probably a bit paranoid though.
>

For both PAM and the kernel, if you accept the defaults everything
should continue to work. Unattended upgrades will automatically select
the defaults.

- Ryan