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With important updates just out for both gnutls and openssl:

As well as updating the packages in question, are there any specific services that also need to be restarted?

And are there any commonly-compiled applications that need recompiling? I don't know how things work when a third party package is involved - do they just link to something or do they use some code from the package?

I'm thinking specifically about spamdyke and nrpe in particular (nrpe, I think, required openssl-devel before it will compile ) and spamdyke does some TLS stuff if compiled correctly. But I don't know how these things link, if at all, with the just updated packages.

Provided you are dealing with a dynamically linked shared object that does not change targets, you should not have to rebuild anything in most cases.

The conditions where you would:
1) the target library changing, ie: libfoo.so.1 becomes libfoo.so.2.
2) Something in the API has changed that the linked application needs to be aware of. Say for example an application has an ifdef on a feature that was recently added in a library change. The previous build would not be able to take that into account unless it is rebuilt (and detected).


Item 2 is subtle, and knowing when this happens really involves deep understanding of how all the parts work together in the application. If you're not sure, recompile.