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On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:54 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have an ebuild (see below) for a small keyring daemon. I would like |
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> to |
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> kill the daemon process, if it is running, whenever it is emerged |
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> again |
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> to ensure that no running daemon process refers to an old install. |
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> Is there a clean and recommended way of doing this in an ebuild or |
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> should I just use killall in pkg_postinst()? |
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You might wanna check the -dev mailing list to be sure, but I'm almost |
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certain that they'll tell you this is a no-no. Generally speaking |
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ebuilds should build/install packages and not affect the system in ways |
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like starting/killing processes. A simple ELOG message is the preferred |
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method. |
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Nevertheless, the -dev list is probably the better forum to answer your |
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question. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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