On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 04:03:16PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > reopen 910377 > reassign dpkg 1.20.9 > thanks > > On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:34:32 +0200 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 21:30:43 +0200 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Am 05.10.18 um 21:28 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > > > That said, also keep in mind, that the inhibit mechanism does not > work > > > > if the reboot request is triggered by privileged users [1], e.g. > if you > > > > trigger a reboot as root, an existing inhibitor blocks are ignored. > > > > [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6644 > > > > > > This issue describes this even better > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2680 > > > > It seems there is no real interest to change this upstream and even if > > at some point in the future there was a way to make inhibitors work for > > the root user, I think such an inhibitor lock shoud be take directly by > > dpkg. I don't think the hook interface is sufficient for that. > > I'm reopening this issue and reassigning it dpkg package, that would at > least avoid non privileged users to restart the machine when there is an > update happening. > > Apparently RPM has this functionality via a plugin. The manpage of the > plugins available at [0] and says: > > This plugin for RPM prevents the system to enter shutdown, sleep > or idle mode while there is a rpm transaction running to prevent > system corruption that can occur if the transaction is > interrupted by a reboot. > > This is achieved by using the inhibit DBUS interface of systemd. > The call is roughly equivalent to executing > > systemd-inhibit --mode=block --what=idle:sleep:shutdown --who=RPM > --why="Transaction running" > > The code is available in [1] > > Having something similar in dpkg would be nice, but that would mean that > dpkg will grow a dependency on libdbus and/or libsystemd, not sure how that > would work
Or just use apt which already does this instead of manually running dpkg? I mean, it wouldn't hurt to have dpkg inhibit too, but it's not really relevant for most users given that apt-pkg library does and hence apt, aptitude, packagekit. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en