[arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?

[Thomas Holmquist]

You can restart openssh without being kicked off. 

"Tavian Barnes" <tavianator at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 2 August 2010 22:00, David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>>        Sending mail from my local server resulted in errors "could not copy
>> sent mail to 'sent' on servername? Checking the mail logs, I found this:
>>
>> <snip>
>> Aug  2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version
>> mismatch: Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set
>> version_ignore=yes)
>> Aug  2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version
>> mismatch: Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set
>> version_ignore=yes)
>> <snip>
>>
>>        So I restarted dovecot -- problem solved. That brought up the
>> question, why didn't pacman restart dovecot with some post-install
>> something?? So should it have? If it didn't, does this need to be reported?
>
>Because of KISS?  Pacman is a package manager, not a system administration tool.
>
>Imagine the story with a different daemon: SSH.  You ssh into your
>box, su, and pacman -Syu.  Halfway through the upgrade, openssh gets
>updated, which automatically restarts the server, which SIGHUPs
>pacman, which is left in an inconsistent state.
>
>>        Let me know. Thanks.
>>
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