Restarting desktop session services on RPM upgrade?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 12:12 -0400, John Dennis a écrit :

> One has to know to restart the desktop session service only after its
> files have been upgraded fully, e.g. in %post. Any scheme based on
> watching other components will expose you to a race condition.

user starts gnome-terminal
user launches a yum update
first gui package reaches the %post stage
session is restarted
gnome-term is killed
yum is killed in the middle of an upgrade
user system is broken
user is angry

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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