On Mon, 20 May 2024 at 10:42, Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 2024-05-20 10:38, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > * Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> [240520 07:35]: > > > [..] But maybe it [glibc's postinst] should be doing some > > > more involved checks about what PID 1 is? It could then make sure to only > > > call > > > systemd telinit if systemd is pid 1. [..] > > > > Well, that would probably suck. Putting the knowledge when to call > > telinit, and a specific telinit, into a ton of different things > > makes all those things hard to get right, hard to update, the usual. > > On the glibc side, this part has always been a pain to handle (a bit > less since upstart got removed). And the systemd decision to increase > the use of dlopen() will make this step even more necessary. > > Therefore I wonder if it could be solved using the trigger mechanism, > basically glibc saying "I got upgraded" and the packages, being systemd, > sysv or any other system can then decide what to do instead of > hardcoding that on the glibc side. > > That would also simplify the chrootless case a bit.
Each package's postinst already needs to do the right thing on upgrade, so yeah that sounds like a good idea to me.
