Re: Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-07-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 20:27:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Karl O. Pinc" writes: > > diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > > index 59c92ec..8276bfe 100644 > > --- a/policy/ch-opersys.rst > > +++ b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > > @@ -1040,3 +1040,33 @@ Debian, so this section

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
"Karl O. Pinc" writes: > diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > index 59c92ec..8276bfe 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-opersys.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > @@ -1040,3 +1040,33 @@ Debian, so this section has been removed. > activate the trigger. In that case, it can be

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-02-28 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 05:09:39PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > index 59c92ec..8276bfe 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-opersys.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-opersys.rst > @@ -1040,3 +1040,33 @@ Debian, so this section has been removed. > activate

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-02-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 09 Feb 2019 at 08:47PM -06, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Anyway, do whatever you think best. Having read it a few more times I think both are valid, and will use your patch unmodified. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-02-09 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:59:18 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > >> The ``/run/reboot-required`` mechanism is used when a reboot is > >> needed to fully apply the changes introduced by a package > >> installation or upgrade. Typically it is the ``postinst`` > >> maintainer script that

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-02-09 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag 1 +patch Hello Karl, Thank you for the new patch. On Sun 20 Jan 2019 at 05:09PM -06, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > I'm 99% confident that _a_ purpose of reboot-required.pkgs > is to provide a list of the packages requiring a reboot > to a human. And notification did not seem to be via

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-20 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi Sean, On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:02:05 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > > It is clear to me that a reboot will occur whenever > > /var/run/reboot-required exists, regardless of the > > state of /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. > > > > It is not clear to me where reboot-required.pkgs is used. > >

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Karl, Thank you for the updated patch. On Sat 19 Jan 2019 at 05:33PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> Are you sure that adding the package name to the .pkgs file is >> required? I've not seen that file on my system; it seems that only >> /run/reboot-required is used. Balint said that the

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-19 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:10:09 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 12:04PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > +Maintainer scripts can signal that a reboot is required to fully > > apply +the changes to the system by touching > > ``/run/reboot-required`` and +adding the package name to >

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Karl, Thank you for your patch! On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 12:04PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > +Signaling that a reboot is required > +--- By inserting the text here you will cause other sections of Policy to be renumbered. It should be added later in the

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:35:05 -0300 Felipe Sateler wrote: > /var/run is a compatibility symlink to /run. This paragraph should > reference /run directly. Fixed in attached patch: reboot_required_v3.patch Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." --

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:13:19 -0600 "Karl O. Pinc" wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst > b/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst index 707f2d4..5942123 100644 --- > a/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst +++ b/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst > @@ -92,6 +92,32 @@ for failure, since the

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is: reboot_required_v2.patch On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:10:16 -0600 "Karl O. Pinc" wrote: > Documents /var/run/reboot-required and > /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. Like v1 of the patch but adds index entries. It's not clear if this is desirable because they would be the only index

Re: Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:10:16AM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Documents /var/run/reboot-required and > /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. /var/run is not longer a thing, so: s#/var## Bastian -- Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. -- Spock, "Operation --

Bug#919507: Reboot required patch for Debian policy

2019-01-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Attached is: reboot_required_v1.patch Documents /var/run/reboot-required and /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs. Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein diff --git a/policy/ch-maintainerscripts.rst