On Wednesday 20 July 2005 05:54 pm, Brian D. Harring wrote:
> Out of curiousity, has any put any thought into some automated method
> or hook for allowing restarting of rc-scripts on upgrade/re-emerge of
> a package?
such a completely automated thing is a bad idea ... detecting and warning
though isnt a bad idea ... too many issues such as config files may need to
be upgraded or maybe a config file was edited but admin doesnt want to
restart the service just yet, etc...
this probably falls under the pkg_{pre,post}inst gathering code bug ... but at
the very end of an emerge process, i think that there should be a summary of
packages which were upgraded and have a running init script ... detecting
whether a given init script is running is trivial, just ask us base folk on
irc and we can point you in the right direction
-mike
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