Hi, On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:49:31 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On April 26, joeyh wrote: > > start-stop-daemon behaves as I described when -exec is used, as > > documented on its man page. At least 1/3 of init scripts run it that > > way, and would all instantly fail if debhelper were changed. (This > > number seems to have gone down somewhat, it used to be nearer to 100%.)
> it also implies that a bug report needs to be filed against dpkg because > 'start-stop-daemon -exec' doesn't properly cope with upgrades. > it's entirely normal that an executable will be replaced during an > upgrade. > > it's also entirely normal that daemon packages will and should do a > restart in the postinst rather than stop in prerm and start in postinst. The test on <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471060#37> seems bogus to me, as the original file would have been removed at "postinst configure" time, and s-s-d should work then. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
