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Re: [Bug#137321] executing of conffiles (init scripts) in postinst



On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:11:33PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:41:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > guaranteed to work reliably. Not changing permissions, not rm'ing it,
> > even getting rid of the rc*.d/ symlinks (or file-rc equivalent).
> Err, why isn't removing the rc*.d/ symlinks sufficient?
> I thought it was OK as long as you left at least one.

apt-get dist-upgrade runs the package's postinst, which will frequently
run /etc/init.d/foo restart on you...

invoke-rc.d addresses this.

Cheers,
aj

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