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

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Tue Aug 3 02:00:09 EDT 2010


On 08/02/2010 11:59 PM, Nicolas D wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2010 06:52:45 J. W. Birdsong wrote:
>> Great point; but we could at least mention **Restart Dovecot with
>> #/etc/rc.d/dovecot restart** (or some such msg)  in the dovecot.install
>> file.    Because we know EVERYONE reads the pacman msg(s) after an
>> install.   Regardless I think that is the solution best hoped for.  David
>> perhaps a bug/feature request asking for same??
>
> Why should a message be printed ?
>
> If you've installed dovecot, and you see a dovecot update, you should know you
> have to restart this service after the upgrade.

	Well sometimes the stupid ones among us don't always catch that dovecot is 
being updated when it is one of 73+ updates that take place. But we 'do' always 
catch the failure to copy to sent -- later :p

	Seriously, one KISS thing that really works for Arch is having the little 
1-line notes that are printed during update like:

<snip>
( 6/73) upgrading perl 
[####################################] 100%
- The directories /usr/lib/perl5/current, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current,
   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1, and /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1
   will be removed from @INC in a future release.
- The directory /usr/bin/perlbin/site will not be added to $PATH in a
   future release.
( 7/73) upgrading enlightenment 
[####################################] 100%
<snip>
(69/73) upgrading system-tools-backends 
[####################################] 100%
==> Daemon method deprecated. Now is starting automatically at login
==> Remove stbd from DAEMONS list
<snip>

	Having a little "** don't forget to restart dovecot" would be nice to have.

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