At Dienstag, 3. August 2010 06:39 Tavian Barnes wrote:
> Because of KISS? Pacman is a package manager, not a system administration
tool.
This has nothing to do with package manager or not because dpkg or rpm can do
this without a problem.
> Imagine the story with a different daemon: SSH. You ssh into your
> box, su, and pacman -Syu. Halfway through the upgrade, openssh gets
> updated, which automatically restarts the server, which SIGHUPs
> pacman, which is left in an inconsistent state.
I have never had problems with a ssh session if i update ssh on my opensuse
server and the specfile has this inside:
%postun
%restart_on_update sshd
%{insserv_cleanup}
It is okay if you say KISS is the goal but inside of a *.install file you could
do the same as in a specfile of a rpm package and no one would call rpm a
"system administration tool".-)
And before one of the arch devs could misunderstood my lines: I can live
perfectly that we the users do this by ourselves instead that the packaging
comsumes more and more time.
See you, Attila
