hi christian, On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:38:39AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Sorry for all the trouble, it just came to my mind that in an act of > total confusion I must have renamed the flag file from > dpkg__mysql_was_running to dpkg__mysql_should_be_started and thus > upgrading from too old versions did not work. > I will check today if using the current mechanism is workable with Woody > and Sarge at all or if I rather step back to always start the server in > postinst as long as the user did not disable it in the current runlevel.
really, i think the latter is a better choice anyway. that is, whether
or not we restart the mysql server *should* be based upon what the
system/runlevel policy is, not whether or not it's running.
sean
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