Re: Reducing downtime on system critical services
Ben Collins wrote:
> Actually the best way to do this is for the packages to not stop the
> daemon in the preinst, and restart it in the postinst. This causes
> the problem. If you look at apache and openldapd (the two that I know that
> work right), you will notice that in the postinst (after upgrade) the
> daemons are restarted. That is the Right Way, IMO, and should be proposed
> on -policy.
As far as I know, policy doesn't discuss this issue at all currently, which
leaves it open to the maintainer to do what they think best.
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