Re: long daemon outages on upgrade
doogie@debian.org (Adam Heath) writes:
> bind does not use start-stop-daemon, so yes, bind should just do the restart
> thing.
There's some confusion here, apparently.
The 'bind' packages which deliver version 8.X bits have been hand-holding the
daemon restart in the postinst to minimize downtime since version 8.2.2p5-2
uploaded in November of 1999. I introduced a bug into this by accident a
while back that LaMont fixed for our 8.3.1-1 upload, so if it's not doing the
right thing now that's a new bug.
It appears that I never implemented the daemon restart hand-holding code for
the bind9 packages which deliver version 9.X bits. Adding it seems like a
good idea. I'll file a wishlist bug against bind9 asking for it so that I
don't forget about it the next time I upload.
A fully generalized solution to the problem of daemons being down a long time
during upgrades implemented with suitable debhelper options would be good,
but I won't wait for it to address this in bind9.
Bdale
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