hey christian, On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:04:34AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > > this seems kind of dodgy, and somewhat stretching what the fhs > > should allow... > > Why do you think? The FHS governs mainly the locations of files as far as > I know and even our Debian policy does not mandate that I immediately > start a server upon upgrading if it was not running before.
what i was getting at was that i don't think storing temporary "server is running" or "server should start" type files in /etc/mysql is really in the spirit of the fhs. > > shouldn't invoke-rc.d take care of determining whether or not > > to start mysql? > > That's the alternative. The current system is just one step cleverer - > if it would only work as it used to :-( out of curiosity, what benefit do we get from using this instead of using invoke-rc.d? > (BTW: Sean: I've just uploaded a new version of 4.0 but that did not contain > any relevant changes it is just to test if the new dpatch system I used for > svn-buildpackage works for the autobuilders) okay, cool. sean --
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