Reindl Harald wrote: > is it really a good decision to restart services after update in > the %post section? > > currently my hardest work is rebuild packages without this especially > for dist-upgrades with "yum" because in this case many would fail because > they are restarted in the middle of the transaction and not all deps are > updated Restarting daemons after an update is a good idea, especially in the case of security updates. You don't want a vulnerable version to continue running after you think you have updated to the fixed version. Yes you can restart them manually if you're aware that you need to, but you shouldn't need to remember such things. Automating tedious work is exactly what computers are for. Doing the restart in %post may not be the best idea. Restarts should be done at the end of the transaction, after all the new packages have been installed and all the old ones have been removed. I think that's supposed to be the time when %posttrans scripts are run. > mind a machine where postfix, dovecot, dbmail... are relying on mysqld > the automatic restart of mysqld causes a lot of troubles if oyu are not > stop all the other services before Anything that keeps a persistent database connection should be able to reconnect if it loses the connection and then continue operating normally. If it doesn't, I'd call that a bug. Björn Persson
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