On 2012-06-19 14:01, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:29 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 2012-06-19 13:59, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > > This implies that an "apt-get install library" needs to trigger that > > > restart. > > > Which means that apt-get needs to depend on restart-services. So either > > > restart-services and checkrestart should go into the apt package, or apt > > > needs > > > to depend on/recommend debian-goodies, which would currently pull in > > > python, > > > perl, curl, dialog and their respective dependencies. > > > > > > The later may be a technically working solution, but from a conceptual and > > > a > > > KISS point of view doesn't make sense to me. > > > > > > Is my conclusion correct so far? > > > > > > So if we want a "clean" solution, then checkrestart/restart-services would > > > need > > > to move into apt and get rid of the non-essential dependencies (get > > > rewritten in > > > shell or C). > > > > I believe this is a wrong layer for proposed functionality -- apt-get > > (libapt) is not the only high-level package manager for Debian. > > > > If I were you, I'd look into dpkg file triggers instead. Triggers will > > by the way automatically solve the problem that you don't restart > > a service 5 times if 5 libraries were upgraded. > > But we still need one trigger per service? I don't think that's a good > idea.
Not necessarily, I imagine there can be a package 'restart-services' which would declare a trigger on all dynamic libraries and then on trigger invocation it will check&restart needed services. That however indeed depends on some details of actual restart-services utilities and trigger processing which I don't know, so I'm just proposing that for evaluation. CC'ing debian-dpkg@ to hear an opinion of dpkg folks. Should that idea be not workable, I agree that using APT hooks might be a good alternative to hardcoding anything to libapt (which I object to). -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++ GNU/Linux developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120619131348.GB20339@r500-debian
