On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com said:
Does anyone have a succinct summary of how to prove to management-types that a given linux box won't have a problem with the leap second? Like kernel > some_version, tzdata > some_version, tzdata-java > some_version?
Only way to "prove" it is to set up a test and try it.
I don't think I need to 'prove' that computer programs do repeatable things. I just want to know the version numbers that need to be installed - something relatively easy to check.
AFAIK there are no known issues with an up-to-date system,
Yeah, but you probably would have said that before the 2012 instance too... And what I really want to know is how 'out-of-date' a system can be.
but that was also true at the last couple of leap seconds (the issues that happened were previously unknown).
Now we know the issues, and hopefully someone had done the simulation tests. I just want to know the specific kernel and package versions that have the fixes. But none of the links I've found discussing the issues boil it down to something a non-geek would want to see.