Re: chroot + apt-get

[Horst Exenberger <he@active-media-group.com>]

Gary Sandine wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 05:25, Horst Exenberger wrote:
>> How can I use "apt-get dist-upgrade" and avoid to restart running daemons?
>> I need it to update diskless-clients directly on the server where their
>> roots are.
>
>I do this kind of thing, but my clients are not running when I
>dist-upgrade them from the server.  Evidently, invoke-rc.d notes that
>the current run level is 0 (in the chroot environment) and does not
>restart upgraded daemons.
>
>If clients are running, I do dist-upgrade in the client, because I want
>daemons to restart (if suggested by package maintainer) when the
>corresponding package is upgrade.

That means that there are no problems, even if apt-get/dpkg writes on the 
screen that it is restarting daemons, I just don't need to care about it.

Thanks a lot for this help.

Horst