On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:45 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like > > to > > kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged > > again > > to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install. > > > > Is there a clean and recommended way of doing this in an ebuild or > > should I just use killall in pkg_postinst()? > > You might wanna check the -dev mailing list to be sure, but I'm almost > certain that they'll tell you this is a no-no. Generally speaking > ebuilds should build/install packages and not affect the system in ways > like starting/killing processes. A simple ELOG message is the preferred > method. > > Nevertheless, the -dev list is probably the better forum to answer your > question.
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