[Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 07.08.12 13:36, Tom Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) wrote:

> On 08/07/2012 01:29 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > For services which should not be restarted on upgrade (D-Bus, ...) we
> > should recommend this:
> > 
> > %postun
> > %{systemd_postun} 
> > 
> > and for services which should be restarted on upgrade, we should
> > recommend this: 
> > 
> > %postun
> > %{systemd_postun_with_restart} apache-httpd.service 
> > 
> > And nobody should use systemctl enable in the spec snippets
> > anymore. That should be encoded in the preset policy (see other mail I
> > just sent).
> 
> Why would we ever not want to do a try-restart on an upgrade? This is
> the current Fedora default.

Many services don't support being restarted. For example D-Bus and various
storage daemons.

Lennart

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