Pacman should run `systemd daemon-reload` when updating .service files

Spider.007 · 2013-11-23 12:20:18

Every time pacman updates a service like ngingx; I would like to restart that service to propagate the changes. However; systemd always complains that the service file was updated. It would be nice if pacman would do this for me. Is it possible to extend pacman in userland, so I can execute this command whenever a .service file is touched? Or should I write a pacman wrapper that uses inotify to detect this?

Anyone knows if this is currently possible? I'm also interested in feedback; I'll post a feature-request on the bugtracker depending on your replies

Last edited by Spider.007 (2013-11-23 13:32:54)

Jristz · 2013-11-23 13:20:21

Feature request in the bugtracker
As far only Allan watch the forum and who know why....

Maybe when Hooks are finished (if are) this can by done without problems

Spider.007 · 2013-11-23 13:31:24

Yes I know about the bugtracker, I was looking for comments on the forums first; I'll clarify this in my post

Pierre · 2013-11-23 13:47:26

This should be easy once we have hooks implemented in pacman.

Spider.007 · 2013-11-23 14:23:25

Pierre wrote:

This should be easy once we have hooks implemented in pacman.

That does indeed sound very interesting; I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us … cman_Hooks but it seems this feature isn't on a roadmap, nor is there any development being done, am I right?

Allan · 2013-11-23 15:00:18

A generic ini config file parser has been added to pacman-git, so it should be much easier to implement now. But no-one I know is working on hooks... I guess the basic stuff (hooks running a command not requiring a file or package being passed) would be relatively easy to implement now.

graysky · 2013-11-27 02:08:59

Glad to hear the underlying code is coming together. I have noticed that nfs exports simply stop working when the nfs-utils package is updated, so having the underlying services restart after the update would be a welcomed addition.

cfr · 2013-11-27 02:36:40

graysky wrote:

Glad to hear the underlying code is coming together. I have noticed that nfs exports simply stop working when the nfs-utils package is updated, so having the underlying services restart after the update would be a welcomed addition.

You could have systemd watch for changes to a relevant file or directory and restart the service. Not as neat but possibly useful if you haven't thought of it already.

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Pacman should run `systemd daemon-reload` when updating .service files

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