[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#730604: libvirt-bin: Please rename libvirt-bin.service back to libvirtd.service and use symlink or Alias= instead

[Guido Günther]

Hi Laurent,
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:51:19PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently looking at this.
Thanks for looking into this.

> As explained, if the .service is being renamed, we need to stop the
> service before it get renamed on disk.
> 
> I see 2 options here:
> 
> 1) Call invoke-rc.d libvirt-bin stop in a preinst script
> 
> 2) Kill libvirtd daemon based on the pid in the .pid file in
> the postinst script (we could either use kill or start-stop-daemon)
> 
> Both will only happen once and only if the user is running systemd
> already.
> 
> With 1) the downtime of the daemon might be a bit longer than with 2)
> 
> What's your preference here?
Given that this would happen between the wheezy -> jessie updates 1)
might impose a rather long downtime so I think 2 would be preferable.
Cheers,
 -- Guido