[Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 17:38:58 UTC 2012
Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said:
> 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.
It's even in the SysV guidelines that automatic condrestart may not be
appropriate for all services.
Bill
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