[gentoo-dev] Re: How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

[Ali Polatel]

Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com> yazmış:
> Hi,
>
> I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like to
> kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged again
> to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install.
>
> Is there a clean and recommended way of doing this in an ebuild or
> should I just use killall in pkg_postinst()?
>
> Or is this ultimately a big no-no??
>

Have a look at pkg_setup functions in postfix ebuilds. This can give you
an idea about how to do it properly.

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ali polatel (hawking)