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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: basile@××××××××××××××.edu
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Including a warning to restart daemons after an update.
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:26:17
Message-Id: 20110821142703.7599e67e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Including a warning to restart daemons after an update. by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:29:45 -0400
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
3
4 > OpenSuse has a nice solution. After an upgrade, it tells you that
5 > there are some running binaries still linking against the old
6 > libraries and asks you to run "zypper ps" to see them in a pretty
7 > format. You can then restart at your discretion.
8 >
9 > I'm wondering if we should add something like that? Something to be
10 > run post_inst() and just ewarn the user. It could be a small eclass
11 > on its own that maintainers can elect to inherit and use in ebuilds
12 > for daemons.
13 >
14 > What do you think? If its a good idea, is implementing it in an
15 > eclass the way to go?
16
17 Rather in PM. Portage 2.2 already does some library magic due to
18 preserved-libs, why it can't do something in this area too?
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Including a warning to restart daemons after an update. "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>