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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:21:06
Message-Id: 200707271319.40271.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file? by Roy Marples
1 On Friday 27 July 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:14 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Friday 27 July 2007, Ali Polatel wrote:
4 > > > Have a look at pkg_setup functions in postfix ebuilds. This can give
5 > > > you an idea about how to do it properly.
6 > >
7 > > that isnt half bad, but still not good. i'd propose you should actually
8 > > be doing:
9 > > /etc/init.d/postgres --quiet status
10 > > and using that to determine the state of things
11 >
12 > Just to note, baselayout-1 is a little wierd like that as in it's not
13 > exactly quiet if init script dependencies need to be updated.
14
15 ... which will be fixed
16
17 > Also, if the rev-bump relies on a new init script then you're SOL as
18 > it's not etc-updated.
19
20 the check is in pkg_setup, so this isnt an issue ... but this could easily be
21 true for any checking after the package is installed
22 -mike

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