[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#722446: Bug#722446: salt-minion: Salt minion unable to update salt

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joe Healy <joehealy at gmail.com> [2013.09.11.0917 +0200]:
> The principle I was working off when doing the original update of
> the init.d script was that /etc/init.d/salt-minion stop should
> stop the minion and all child processes. I still think this is the
> right thing.

Agreed.

What we need is a "restart" action that causes a reload of Salt
without killing the process.

> In the mean time, I have already uploaded a package with the
> change reverted. I believe it would be possible for me to either
> stop that package (possibly dcut).

Stop which package? dcut can be used to remove uploads, but only for
a few minutes until dinstall picks them up.

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