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Re: powerpc update for amd64

From SZÉPE Viktor <viktor@szepe.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: powerpc update for amd64
Date 2018-03-04 16:40 +0100
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Idézem/Quoting Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>:

> On Sun Mar 04, 2018 at 07:35:37 +0100, SZÉPE Viktor wrote:
>
>> What is the use of pushing an update with only powerpc changes to amd64?
>> Thank you.
>
>   This is just a side-effect of the way the packages are built.
>
>   When a new source upload is made then it is built for all available
>  architectures, even if the changes are not useful / relevant for them.
>
>   Typically security updates apply to all architectures.  In this
>  case just be glad you got "lucky" - and you don't have to schedule
>  reboot(s) of all your server(s).

Thank you!

Luckily a reboot takes ~20-30 seconds from `reboot` to fully booted.



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powerpc update for amd64 SZÉPE Viktor <viktor@szepe.net> - 2018-03-04 07:50 +0100
  Re: powerpc update for amd64 Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2018-03-04 15:30 +0100
    Re: powerpc update for amd64 SZÉPE Viktor <viktor@szepe.net> - 2018-03-04 16:10 +0100
      Re: powerpc update for amd64 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2018-03-04 16:20 +0100
  Re: powerpc update for amd64 SZÉPE Viktor <viktor@szepe.net> - 2018-03-04 16:40 +0100
    Re: powerpc update for amd64 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-03-04 18:40 +0100
  Re: powerpc update for amd64 Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> - 2018-03-04 16:50 +0100

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