Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Seth Arnold
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001029 18:54]: > Maybe some upgrades should just be labelled "reboot recommended"? It will be a sad day when this happens. :( I think it is a strong selling point when I tell my MS friends, tired of rebooting after installing a new web browser, that one can

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Ben Collins
> > On this topic, I'm trying to get Oracle working. Since as we all know libc6 > 2.2 is "perfectly compatible" it ought to work :) In reality it doesn't work > so I'm trying to get it to use the old libc6. Someone on this list claimed you > could have the two installed simultaneously but it doesn

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:56:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:04:54PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > qmail(-src) can be added to the list too. Somehow it kept sucking > up disk space that I could not find. Kill and restart freed > and fixed that. > > I don't kno

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We need to find a way to not require the restarts. Perhaps the nss modules > > could provide the old nss functions as versioned 2.0 symbols? > > > > (Sigh, this would all go away if people just bumped sonames when they had > > to.) > > This isn't a

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread cfm
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:04:54PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: qmail(-src) can be added to the list too. Somehow it kept sucking up disk space that I could not find. Kill and restart freed and fixed that. I don't know a lot about shared libs. My understanding is that as long as something is usin

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 07:27:23PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:23:43PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > Ok, I'm tired of having to track all services that might need to be > > > restarted after a libc6 upgrade. So here

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-29 Thread Greg Stark
Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:23:43PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Ok, I'm tired of having to track all services that might need to be > > restarted after a libc6 upgrade. So here's what I am going to do. I want > > to require all packages that need thi

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:22:02AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: > Anthony> Which will kludge up postinsts from now to forever, be an > Anthony> extra source for bugs, and make changing things in future > Anthony> awkward. > I don't think we should

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-29 Thread Anthony Towns
(Please don't Cc: me on these mails) On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:07:38AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: > Anthony> dpkg already knows this, and it can already be determined > Anthony> by looking for "Unpacking ..." or "Setting up ...". > >> - current

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-29 Thread Brian May
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> Which will kludge up postinsts from now to forever, be an Anthony> extra source for bugs, and make changing things in future Anthony> awkward. I don't think we should downgrade the capability of future debian products, either just for

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-29 Thread Brian May
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: Anthony> dpkg already knows this, and it can already be determined Anthony> by looking for "Unpacking ..." or "Setting up ...". >> - current task for this package, as generated by dpkg-log Anthony> Which is exactly what this would be outp