Bug#739950: apache2: Reduce downtime on package upgrade
Package: apache2
Version: 2.2.22-13+deb7u1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
When Apache is upgraded I see more downtime then needed.
At the start of a package upgrade the Apache daemon is stopped.
... Work is done on other packages ... e.g. rebuilding kernel stuff
... Apache configure/post install scripts fire
... Apache is started again.
When a kernel upgrade is done at the same time this downtime can easily
last more then a minute.
Is there a way for Apache to pull stopping and starting closer together?
I've experimented by adding 'return 0' to apache_wait_stop() in
/etc/init.d/apache2. And restarting Apache by hand afterwards. Which
seems to upgrade just fine.
Bind is an example of a service that is only restarted at the end of an
upgrade.
It's not a huge issue, but it would make such updates less intrusive.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Met vriendelijke groet / Regards,
Herman van Rink
Initfour websolutions
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