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Re: support for merged /usr in Debian



On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 19:43 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 03, Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> wrote:
> 
> > First, it would be nice to have a preinst check if the system has any
> > running services that uses ProtectSystem and offer a choice to stop
> > (and restart) them in case having them running is really a problem...
> I will think about this, I need to check how much complex it would be to 
> lift the related debconf code from the glibc package. :-)
> But this is only useful if every service can actually be restarted: as 
> soon as any of them (what about dbus?) cannot be stopped and restarted 
> later without causing troubles then this would be a waste of time.
> 
> > Second, as you already noted in your TODO I think it's probably a
> > good idea to turn the initramfs preinst check into a debconf prompt.
> I just have not found yet how to determine if the system was booted 
> using an initramfs or not. Does anybody have any hint?
[...]

test -d /run/initramfs

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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