On 30/08/07 at 21:58 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > to, 2007-08-30 kello 20:04 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > > Also, I'm not sure that it's a good idea to not start daemons: how are > > you going to check that they are properly stopped when the package is > > removed? > > I don't think it's the job of piuparts to make sure daemons are properly > stopped, especially since it cannot reliably start them in the first > place. For example, if the host system already runs a web server, > testing apache in a chroot means it can't bind to port 80, and then > installation fails. > > Some services will do worse things than fail: you don't want your system > clock to jump just because you're testing NTP software with piuparts. So it's wrong to start daemons, but it's OK to run preinsts and postinsts, and /etc/cron.*/* ? Some packages do dangerous things for the host system in those scripts as well. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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