Re: Please remove rcconf
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:25:03PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
The first problem (as has already been mentioned) is that in the absence
of symlinks the service will be started on upgrade even if it wasn't
running before the upgrade.
Well, there are long-standing bugs in debian's handling of services on
upgrade. It wasn't long ago that the system blindly restarted
everything. Now it guesses, but doesn't do a all-round good job. There
were proposals long ago that on upgrades packages should check if the
service was running before stopping, then restart if it was. I don't
upgrade constantly, though, so this shouldn't be a showstopper. You need
to pay attention while upgrading and this is just another reason why.
Mike Stone
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