On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > Am 29.01.2013 00:50, schrieb Kay Sievers: >> It is completely wrong to ever do that and to restart udev or other >> essential sevices from packages. No package besides udev itself is >> allowed to do restart these services > > and not only in the context of udev > > it is GENERALLY wrong > it is wrong to restart httpd > it is wrong to restart mysqld > > it is GENERALLY wrong to cripple this in any fedora package > instead AT LEAST have this controlled by a global setting > > what do packagers imagine to happen by restart mysqld on machines > where a lot of services depend on mysqld.service and randomly > failing while the admin is EXACTLY knowing what he is doing > and which services in which order he has to restart to get > a new mysqld, httpd whatever version actibe? >
File a bug (or better patch) to port the services you care about to use socket activation. That way a restart wont have any consequences like those. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
