[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#397289: nagios2-common: various ways of init script failing cause package installation to fail

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:27:27AM +0100, Sean Finney (or someone using his address) wrote:
> upgrading nagios2 with a configuration file error means the
> init script fails, meaning the package installation fails.

I'd say that's a feature. What behavior do you suggest?

> but more importantly, upgrading nagios2 when it isn't running
> results in a nonzero-failing init script, causing the upgrade
> to fail.

Hm. I cannot reproduce this.

installed nagios2 2.5-1
stopped nagios daemon
verified that no nagios daemon was running
dpkg --install nagios2 2.6-1 and dependencies
upgrade finished without error, nagios 2.6 daemon running

Greetings
Marc

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