On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:25:03PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
The first problem (as has already been mentioned) is that in the absence of symlinks the service will be started on upgrade even if it wasn't running before the upgrade.
Well, there are long-standing bugs in debian's handling of services on upgrade. It wasn't long ago that the system blindly restarted everything. Now it guesses, but doesn't do a all-round good job. There were proposals long ago that on upgrades packages should check if the service was running before stopping, then restart if it was. I don't upgrade constantly, though, so this shouldn't be a showstopper. You need to pay attention while upgrading and this is just another reason why. Mike Stone
