[Fedora-packaging] "gconfd-2: no process killed" messages

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 04:03:05 UTC 2007


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Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running rawhide these days again and during yum update I quite often
> see messages like
> 
>>   Updating  : gedit                        ##################### [173/382] 
>> gconfd-2: no process killed
>>   Updating  : deskbar-applet               ##################### [174/382] 
>> gconfd-2: Kein Prozess abgebrochen
>>   Updating  : gnome-terminal               ##################### [175/382]
> 
> Looking closer at the spec and at the Gconf session on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ScriptletSnippets
> it seems they run
> 
> killall -HUP gconfd-2 || :
> 
> to make sure any running gconfd-2 pick up newly installed schemes. But
> well, as you can see from above output there might be cases when no
> gconfd-2 is running, thus killall will print a warning.
> 
> I think we should avoid such useless warnings -- thus it would seem
> better to me to use killall with "--quiet" or use
> 
> killall -HUP gconfd-2 2> /dev/null || :
> 
> instead. What do you guys think?
> 
This looks like a good change.  Anyone object to me going ahead and
changing it?

- -Toshio
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