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[David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

I mentioned the patches we do to the udev spell to linux-hotplug-devel
and he mentioned some things of importance. I mentioned why the patch
was needed in several parts...
This is what he said about removing the killall udevd call that we
patch out of the makefile.

<snip>
> 1) no package to start or stop services in the process of installing
> the package... hence the removal of the killall udevd && udevd
> --daemon call

So you install a new version of udev and don't kill the old udevd
program?  That's not good at all.  Remember, if you set DEST_DIR, that
doesn't get called.  That is there to allow you to build and not mess
with any running services (as is needed on rpm and deb build machines.)
</snip>

I was wondering what our official position is on starting and stopping
critical services on spell upgrades...

- David Brown