Bug#374777: closed by Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> (Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#374777: ntp-server: init scripts fails on upgrade and upgrade fails)

[Bdale Garbee]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 18:13 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:18:56PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 20:01 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > > > So how should one fix this situation?
> > > > apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't fix it.
> > >
> > > You have various options:
> > > - Run /etc/init.d/ntp-server start, so that stopping it works.
> > > - Edit the /etc/init.d/ntp-server script, and add a --oknodo to
> > >   the start-stop-daemon --stop call.  This is what changed in -9.
> > > - Remove the -e from the first line.  Adding that is actually
> > >   the reason you have the problem in the first place.
> > 
> > I think we need to provide a stable upgrade path, at least from the previous 
> > stable version.  Something in the preinst like the stuff we recently removed 
> > might be the ticket.
> 
> Afaik, an upgrade from stable (or testing) should work.  It's
> only from one version in unstable to an other that breaks.

That's closer to being acceptable, but it's still mighty unfriendly.  If
it's not crazily difficult to cleanly support version upgrades, you
should try to do it.

Bdale