Automatic and silent installation of security updates

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:15:58PM +0200, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005, Wouter Stomp wrote:
> 

> > About the kernel, I don't think that should be silently upgraded either.
>
I don't think there's a problem with automatically installing new
kernels; only if the grub default changes to the new one. Updates on
RedHat, for example, point the default at the old kernel until you
change it manually.
 
> How should an upgrade-tool distinguish between kernels and other
> packages?
>
There's some kernel spotting logic in apt somewhere already to make it
object if you try to remove the package of the running kernel so it
might be possible to use that.

Ewan

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