Re: postinst corrupts my settings after a 'apt-get upgrade'.
Many thanks, a update-rc.d forked-daapd disable makes it :-) Regards Volker Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:06:27 -0700 Von: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org An: vot...@gmx.de CC: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: postinst corrupts my settings after a \'apt-get upgrade\'. vot...@gmx.de writes: i have some problems with the package update mechanism in my appliance. I have installed various services like 'forked-daapd'. Because i wanted to monitor and start the daemon via 'monit' i removed the init script from the runlevels via 'update-rc.d -f forked-daapd remove'. After a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after enabling Squeeze backports) i received the package from the backports. The problem now is that it seems that the 'postinst' script has registered the runlevels again and the process is statred via init.d script and monit now. The basic problem that you're having is that this is not the correct way to disable an init script in Debian. The correct way is to rename all the S* links in /etc/rc?.d for that service to K* links. If you make that change, you'll find it's preserved across upgrades and changes. And yes, that's annoying and there's no good tool in the base installation to handle it for you, and that's a bug that should be fixed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739f7b6mk@windlord.stanford.edu -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111006205229.15...@gmx.net
Re: postinst corrupts my settings after a 'apt-get upgrade'.
Hi, vot...@gmx.de wrote: Another szenario might be that i have installed service xyz but i have disabled it because i did not want to use it right now. If it is updated via a package update the default postinst behaviour is to register the init script in the runlevels and starts the daemon/app/whatever. This is not the behaviour i expect. I'm thinking wrong here or is this a problem in dpkg/APT? In my eyes the postinst script should check whether it is installed the first time or not. This has nothing to do with dpkg or APT. It has more to do with Debian policy[1] --- from the point of view of dpkg, each package provides its own postinst script with whatever behavior it chooses. There have been a few discussions of this recently[2][3][4]. Hope that helps, Jonathan [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.3.3 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/163640/focus=164342 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/163640/focus=164027 [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/764253/focus=159724 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111005114317.GC27187@elie
Re: postinst corrupts my settings after a 'apt-get upgrade'.
vot...@gmx.de writes: i have some problems with the package update mechanism in my appliance. I have installed various services like 'forked-daapd'. Because i wanted to monitor and start the daemon via 'monit' i removed the init script from the runlevels via 'update-rc.d -f forked-daapd remove'. After a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after enabling Squeeze backports) i received the package from the backports. The problem now is that it seems that the 'postinst' script has registered the runlevels again and the process is statred via init.d script and monit now. The basic problem that you're having is that this is not the correct way to disable an init script in Debian. The correct way is to rename all the S* links in /etc/rc?.d for that service to K* links. If you make that change, you'll find it's preserved across upgrades and changes. And yes, that's annoying and there's no good tool in the base installation to handle it for you, and that's a bug that should be fixed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739f7b6mk@windlord.stanford.edu
