[wpkg-users] WPKG 1.1.0 reboot loop during upgrade

[Mark Cooke]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Meier [mailto:r.meier at wpkg.org] 
> Sent: 07 July 2009 15:36
> To: Mark Cooke
> Cc: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG 1.1.0 reboot loop during upgrade
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Mark Cooke wrote:
> > By the way, did reboot=true always restart immediately in 
> earlier versions
> > of WPKG ?  I'm a bit surprised I didn't see this situation 
> with 0.9, but it
> > is possible it didn't arise with how I was packaging programs then.
> 
> I am not fully sure about version 0.9. I "forked" from 0.9 
> and I thought that
> most of the behavior was kept untouched.
> However I made some changes in the check and install code to 
> assure that a
> package is really installed (and not just the commands are 
> executed and then
> "assume" that it is installed). So maybe WPKG 0.9 was adding 
> the package
> immediately to the local wpkg.xml even before the reboot. 
> From my point of view
> this is wrong because this would add a package to the "known 
> to be installed
> properly" list even before it is fully installed.
> 
> In general I would say I don't care too much any more about 
> version 0.9 - there
> might be small changes here and there but in most cases 
> upgrading is possible
> without changing the packages. If somebody faces problems 
> like you we can give
> an advise how to resolve it.

Thanks again.

I updated the packages.xml wiki with some information about the options for
'exit code reboot' and 'package wide reboot'.

I've realised that my confusion comes from the two different meanings for
'reboot=true'.

Reboot at the package level:

True      :  Reboot after all processing is complete
False     :  Never reboot for this package
Delayed   :  Equivalent to never (as it is 'not true')
Postponed :  Equivalent to never (as it is 'not true')

Reboot at the exit-code level:

True      :  Reboot immediately this command is done
Delayed   :  Reboot at end of this package processing
Postponed :  Reboot after all packages are processed


Cheers,

Mark