On 23-Mar-00, 18:32 (CST), Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > The main case (IMHO) where we need a `maybe-restart' is in postinst's > so that an upgrade doesn't restart a service that doesn't need to be > restarted.
That may not work the way one would think it would, for a couple of reasons. One is that I'd guess[1] that most upgrades use a "stop" in the preinst and a "start" in the postinst (as you note later). The other is that start-stop-daemon fails to stop a daemon whose executable has been replaced - in other words, if you *want* the new version to be used, you need to do (preinst: stop) and (postinst : start). > I personally think a more useful thing would be a "start-rc.d" that you > use a la: > > $ cat debian/postinst > #!/bin/sh > start-rc.d inetd restart > > which will then call /etc/init.d/inetd restart iff inetd ought to be > started in whatever runlevel we're currently in. That seems a lot more valuable -- I've many other requests for that functionality. Steve [1] on one of my machines, "grep 'init.d.*restart' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*postinst" produced two hits (libc6 and netbase), while lots call "start". Hmm, lots also call start-stop-daemon directly. -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
