Re: Daemons and stoppages during upgrades.
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> I propose that we develop some sort of method to tag daemon packages as
> such. This way apt/dpkg could know to stop them and unpack and configure
> them ahead of all other packages if possible. This way during large
> updates web/mail/ftp and other services are not stopped for very long.
> Maybe this could be "Daemon: yes" in the control file...
If you stick Important: yes with the packages then APT will do just that.
More specifically you can add lines like
Package: sendmail
Important: yes
To /var/state/apt/userstatus (?) and APT will will follow your directions.
Jason
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