Jon Peatfield wrote: > Considering the case of an update to 'openssl', there are many > packages which depend on it, and several of these have > services/daemons. > > However, as far as I can tell none of them have any obvious > '--scripts' or '--triggers' which will cause those to be re-started > if openssl is updated. > Adding a somewhat idle comment to this thread, I once had a spirited discussion with a Debian developer (Phil Hands). He sang the praises of dpkg which is claimed to always restart services such as sshd following an update, versus rpm which does as you describe. I guess he was right. To be fair, its not the actual mechanics of rpm versus dpkg, more Debian's rigid adherence to the rules. (Did i really just praise Debian over the right and natural way of RPM based distros? Need that first coffee of the morning to bring reality back into focus).