On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:25 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Jake wrote: > > I was creating a Debian package and after it install I would like it > > to prompt the user to reboot the computer, is there anyway to do > > this? > > Except in very limited circumstances, there should be no need to reboot > the computer after installing a package. The only exception I can think > of is something related to the kernel; in general, root should be aware > that a reboot is required to make that functionality work, but may want > to defer it indefinitely (for example, on a server). > > So yes, the right way to do this is debconf, but what you want to do is > probably the wrong thing.
You could also have a look at update-notifier. It has a mechanism to signal users that they should reboot. Rebooting from maintainer scripts is probably a bad idea (may leave dpkg in an inconsistent state). -- -- arthur - adej...@debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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