do package updates automatically kill running exes?
Andrew Schulman
schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Thu Aug 13 19:02:00 GMT 2015
> > Anyway, that answers my question. If I want to be sure a process from one of my
> > packages exits, I need to put a killall into its preremove script.
>
> I've put a "pkill ." in all scripts that run setup (with the requisite
> are you sure? y/N).
Ugh, both psmisc (killall) and procps (pkill) aren't in base, so both of
those may fail.
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