Bug#605507: your mail

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:26:59PM +0900, d+deb at vdr.jp wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> > @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
>> >  # Tightened permissions for the config file
>> >  chmod -R ug=rw,o=,ug+X /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
>> >
>> > +# avoid to fail on invoke-rc.d icecast2 start when upgrading see Bug#605507
>> > +sleep 3
>> > +
>>
>> What is this supposed to achieve?
>
>When upgrading icecast2, stop (in prerm) and start (in postinst) process.
>In some case, icecast2 gets signal and stops after a while.
>If icecast2 process still exists, start fails.
>So it waits for process really stopping.
>Old icecast2's init does not have "--retry TERM/5/0/30" option,
>so I put "sleep 3" in postinst for upgrading icecast2.


Ahh, thanks for clarifying - I was wondering too.

In that case it is probably better to do something like this in preinst 
or postinst (doublecheck that it works - below is only pseudocode!):

if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le 2.3.2-6; then
   pkill icecast2
fi


  - Jonas

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