On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:10, Michael Stone wrote: > 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.
Upgrades are handled properly if and only if rc symlink farms are fully populated. > There > were proposals long ago that on upgrades packages should check if the > service was running before stopping, then restart if it was. I.e., that "try-restart" be implemented in all packages. That is required before Debian can be said to support running of services in "manual control" mode. > 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. So your argument is that it is OK to put services in such a state that they will be improperly started on upgrade. You make it sound as if upgrade chaos were a long Debian tradition that we should honour and cherish! This is the Quality Assurance mailing list so I think I can claim victory now. :) -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
