Hello Karl, Thank you for your patch! On Fri 18 Jan 2019 at 12:04PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > +Signaling that a reboot is required > +----------------------------------- By inserting the text here you will cause other sections of Policy to be renumbered. It should be added later in the chapter to avoid that. But don't worry, I can fix that when applying the patch. > +Maintainer scripts can signal that a reboot is required to fully apply > +the changes to the system by touching ``/run/reboot-required`` and > +adding the package name to ``/run/reboot-required.pkgs``. Maintainer > +scripts should not add the package name to > +``/run/reboot-required.pkgs`` if it is already present there. Are you sure that adding the package name to the .pkgs file is required? I've not seen that file on my system; it seems that only /run/reboot-required is used. Balint said that the .pkgs is an Ubuntu thing; are you sure it has been upstreamed into Debian? > + > +The appropriate place to do this is expected to be when the > +``postinst`` script is called as ``postinst configure > +most-recently-configured-version``. > + > +Ordinary programs may manipulate these files to signal that a reboot > +is required. > + This is a bit awkward. You describe this feature in terms of maintainer scripts and then say that programs can use it too. It would be better to put it in ch. 9 or ch. 10, I think, and describe it in more general terms. -- Sean Whitton
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