Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-17 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/14/2015 2:28 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jon TURNEY writes: >> I don't understand why you need to do anything over and above what >> setup already does. > > Read on. > >> Setup cannot replace /usr/bin/fish.exe while there is a running >> process with it loaded, and will request permission to ki

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon TURNEY writes: > I don't understand why you need to do anything over and above what > setup already does. Read on. > Setup cannot replace /usr/bin/fish.exe while there is a running > process with it loaded, and will request permission to kill those > processes before trying to replace it (and

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 14/08/2015 12:35, Andrew Schulman wrote: On 13/08/2015 20:02, Andrew Schulman wrote: Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with t

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 13/08/2015 20:02, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >>> Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from > >>> one of my > >>> packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. > >> > >> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite > >>

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/13/2015 3:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrew Schulman writes: Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. >>> >>> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: >> > Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one >> > of my >> > packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. >> >> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite >> are you sure? y/N). > > Ugh, b

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/08/2015 20:02, Andrew Schulman wrote: Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite are you sure? y/N). Ugh, both

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one > > of my > > packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script. > > I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite > are you sure? y/N). Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: > OK. Right, I have seen and used that dialog. But more often, I just notice > that > after an update, processes have exited. This happened to me recently with > mintty, for example, but there have been others. If you do an automated install, you will not be prompted. >

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 13/08/2015 07:19, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I've noticed that when I update a package, the exe's in it get killed. For > > example, when emacs gets updated, my running emacsen die. > > > > Is this something that setup explicitly does, for all packages? Or that > > some > > packages do for

Re: do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/08/2015 07:19, Andrew Schulman wrote: I've noticed that when I update a package, the exe's in it get killed. For example, when emacs gets updated, my running emacsen die. Is this something that setup explicitly does, for all packages? Or that some packages do for themselves in a preremov

do package updates automatically kill running exes?

2015-08-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
I've noticed that when I update a package, the exe's in it get killed. For example, when emacs gets updated, my running emacsen die. Is this something that setup explicitly does, for all packages? Or that some packages do for themselves in a preremove script? Or just a byproduct of replacing a