On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 08:18 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > * Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> [150923 07:52]: > > What might work, ..., and then use dpkg triggers to start the > > vbox service after all packages in the dpkg installation run have > been > > configured. > > If I understand correctly how dpkg triggers work, this could cause a > restart of vbox before the module is installed, but then it should > also > cause a second restart after it is installed. (I.e. you could get a > spurious failing restart in the middle, but when the dust settles, > all > should be well.) > > This is caused by apt and aptitude breaking up large installations > into > multiple calls to dpkg. Each call to dpkg will cause the triggers to > be > run, so if apt(itude) happens to separate the vbox and vbox-dkms > installations into separate runs of dpkg, vbox might be restarted the > first time with the wrong module, but it will be corrected in a > subsequent run. This assumes correctly using Recommends instead of > Depends. As I (and others) said earlier, not only is Pre-Depends > wrong, > but Depends is also wrong in this situation.
Thanks for the explanation Marvin. We'll test and see what fits best. -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response
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