Re: service failures should not fail dpkg installation [was: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends]

At Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:11:48 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > * Jeroen Dekkers [150924 07:23]: > > At Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:53:11 -0400, > > Marvin Renich wrote: > > > I think it should be documented in the developers reference that if you > > > attempt to start or restart a

service failures should not fail dpkg installation [was: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends]

* Jeroen Dekkers [150924 07:23]: > At Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:53:11 -0400, > Marvin Renich wrote: > > I think it should be documented in the developers reference that if you > > attempt to start or restart a service in postinst, you should guard it > > so that a failure in the

Re: service failures should not fail dpkg installation [was: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Marvin Renich wrote: > How does failing the upgrade solve anything? The upgrade should only > fail if the failure of the service to start was because something in the > upgrade itself was broken; this is rarely the case. ... > What makes this even worse is that when

Re: service failures should not fail dpkg installation [was: Re: promoting virtualbox-dkms to virtualbox pre-depends]

Hi On 24-09-15 18:21, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Marvin Renich wrote: > What we really want is a "do not fail upgrade, BUT report that some services > *that were previously running* failed to restart after the upgrade run". > > ESPECIALLY if you are going to take