On 06/08/17 04:43, Sven Hartge wrote: > Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: >> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >>>> What is the right way to restart a service from the postinst >>>> script for Stretch and newer? > >>> I may be misunderstanding your question but on a system that has >>> migrated to systemd, you can restart a service with: >>> >>> systemctl restart <service> > >> I think you missed the point. To run it from a postinst script we need >> a universal(!) way to restart a service, regardless whether systemd or >> sysvinit-core or whatever is installed. > > invoke-rc.d does just that and is included in postinst by > dh_installinit for both SysV-init *and* systemd.
I've only looked through it briefly, but it looks like it invokes the initscript regardless of whether systemd is in use - systemd can run init scripts, after all - and so it relies on an init script being present. I guess that's ok if you're the packager, because you can provide one. Regardless, I'd tend to ask packaging questions on debian-mentors. Richard
