Anthony G. Basile posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:29:45 -0400 as excerpted: > Hi everyone, > > After updating libraries, I always run something like > > lsof -x / | grep DEL > > to see if any running binaries are linking to old libraries that were > just updated and then I manually restart them. This is particularly > important if the update addresses some security issue in the library.
> I'm wondering if we should add something like that? Something to be run > post_inst() and just ewarn the user. It could be a small eclass on its > own that maintainers can elect to inherit and use in ebuilds for > daemons. There's the lib_users binary and package, which I've been using, but having portage run it (or the like) automatically, at the end of an emerge, would be useful. IMO having it as an eclass isn't useful, since that would be at the individual package level. But having something like FEATURES=warn-deleted , with output similar to that of lib_users at the end of an emerge, could be useful indeed. Thanks for the idea! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
