Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (134 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:37:49PM +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> > > On 07/27/2011 01:35 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > > It is a bad idea I think, you can not easily know if its your 
> > > > dconf-service binary.
> > >
> > > I think that's the idea behind the script - to kill ALL running
> > > instances of dconf-service for ALL users.
> >
> > How do you know some other programs are not called dconf-service?
> >
> > If such a thing is required in an online update, you would mark it as a 
> > "rebootneeded"
> > patch.
>
> Or if you kill it in a moment of ongoing communication which applications
> do not expect to abort and thus causes them to crash.
>
> Indeed a bad idea.

We do the same with %restart_on_update for system services though so things
wouldn't get worse.

cu
Ludwig

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