On 08/21/2011 01:07 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 21.08.2011 15:27, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:29:45 -0400 >> "Anthony G. Basile" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> OpenSuse has a nice solution. After an upgrade, it tells you that >>> there are some running binaries still linking against the old >>> libraries and asks you to run "zypper ps" to see them in a pretty >>> format. You can then restart at your discretion. >>> >>> I'm wondering if we should add something like that? Something to be >>> run post_inst() and just ewarn the user. It could be a small eclass >>> on its own that maintainers can elect to inherit and use in ebuilds >>> for daemons. >>> >>> What do you think? If its a good idea, is implementing it in an >>> eclass the way to go? >> Rather in PM. Portage 2.2 already does some library magic due to >> preserved-libs, why it can't do something in this area too? >> > Yeah seems like something a package manager can implement and wouldn't > necessarily need anything from ebuilds. > > Regards, > Petteri >
Agreed for the above reason. I'm not too familiar with portage internals. If this is an easy addition for you guys, do you mind doing it? Otherwise I'll try to produce a patch. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : [email protected] GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535 GnuPG ID : D0455535
