On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:39:49PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >>>> "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> BC> THe correct thing would be to fail if sawfish is running, in the pre-inst.
> BC> Force the user to upgrade at a console. Lot's of things like XDM and GDM,
> BC> do this aswell. It is the only sane way. Folks who do upgrades, are always
> BC> advised to do it from a tty, and not in X, anyway.
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> My postinst script is:
>
> # restart sawfish
> if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then
> sawfish-client -display :0.0 -f restart
> fi
You missed the point. It should be in preinst as:
if [ `pidof sawfish` ]; then
echo "You need to quit sawfish before upgrading to avoid problem."
exit 1
fi
- Ben
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