Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:12:57 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote:
> > > dh_installinit adds 'invoke-rc.d start' (or: init.d/package start) to
> > > postinst, hence, after dpkg-reconfigure is run, postinst will try to
> > > start an already running service, start-stop-daemon will fail, and the
> > > daemon will not reload its new configuration.
> > > 
> > > What's the correct way to handle this?
> > 
> > Well, I once proposed people to use invoke-rc.d restart for that.  It
> > is (now) defined to be stop if it is running.  Then start it.
> 
> So you are suggesting not to use dh_installinit in this case and to
> write 'invoke-rc.d restart' manually into postinst?

No. See Joey's reply.  But you certainly _can_ do so if you wish.

> Should this be reported as a bug against debhelper?

No :-)

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