[Evolution] Bug#587413: Bug#587413: evolution fails on lenny -> squeeze full-upgrade

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Jun 28 13:55:06 UTC 2010


On 28/06/2010 15:23, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:18:37PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On 28/06/2010 14:58, maximilian attems wrote:
>>> hmm checking the root mail account, I see lots of mails telling me to:
>>> evolution --force-shutdown
>>> why can't that be done by hand,
>>
>> As said on irc, we can't kill an user process, that'd definitely be a
>> bad behavior.
> 
> it is indisutable to have run to every of those boxes as evolutions
> fails miserably to upgrade.

-ENOPARSE
> 
> when one has chosen Noninteractive, one doesn't want to be
> bothered about every detail and corner cases of the boxes one admins.
> so I don't see the trouble of the shutdown.
>
It's not a good idea to upgrade when there are processes running. I have
to admit I feel bad about chosing for you the intended behavior in that
case. Since you ask “I don't care, do as you want”, I guess we could add
a check on noninteractive mode and proceed with evolution running (I
really don't think a preinst script should be allowed to kill an user
process).

I don't really like noninteractive as a way to allow users to shoot
themselves in the foot, but maybe that's just me.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis





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