Re: Restart services after upgrade

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 05:20:14PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I'm not sure it that easy to automate. you should restart if you update the
> service itself (e.g. apache), but also if you update a dependancy (e.g.
> apr-util). To be safe you should stop before starting the update, and start
> once update is done.


There are more cases, even without direct dependencies between packages.
eg. you also need to restart apache when php has been updated (the link
is ap*-php, which depends on both apache and php).


> But there is also cases where you know restarting is not needed.
> All in all, I prefer to do this manually.


I agree.


        Geert


-- 
Geert Hendrickx  -=-  ghen%telenet.be@localhost  -=-  PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F
This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!