OpenSSL package updates coming shortly to mirrors

[Arthur Dent]

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 01:28:51PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> Hi, if you weren't aware, there is an announcement about an OpenSSL
>> security issue on the Fedora announce list.  Here's the post:
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-June/003216.html
>>
>> The updates referenced in the announcement are still in the process of
>> being pushed out to mirrors.  However, you can pull the updates
>> directly from Fedora's koji instance if you don't want to wait:
>
> Corrections to make this a little easier:
>
>> For Fedora 19 x86_64:
>>
>> yum -y install koji
>> koji download-build --arch=x86_64 openssl-1.0.1e-38.fc19
>
>   yum localupdate openssl*-1.0.1e-38.fc19.x86_64.rpm
>
>> For Fedora 20 x86_64:
>>
>> yum -y install koji
>> koji download-build --arch=x86_64 openssl-1.0.1e-38.fc20
>
>   yum localupdate openssl*-1.0.1e-38.fc20.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> Also, keep in mind that if you have multilib packages installed, you
> may need to omit the --arch options above and do something like `yum
> localupdate openssl*rpm` instead to grab and update the additional
> packages.

Thanks for this.

Is it sufficient simply to *install* (update) this package? Does anything
need to be restarted in order for it to be fully effective? (I tend to
reboot only once per month - but I will make an exception if necessary)