[Yum-devel] [PATCH] yum-updatesd: Kill the yum-updatesd-helper when stopping yum-updatesd

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:20 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 09:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 09:50 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:29 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > > > Luke Macken wrote: 
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:26:49PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:  
> > > > > > So my concern with this is that if we're in the middle of installing
> > > > > > updates, this is going to leave your system in a really bad place.  :-/
> > > > > 
> > > > > True.  How did the monolithic daemon handle this ?
> > > >
> > > > Can't this be done by checking if /var/run/yum.pid exist and contains
> > > > the pid of the yum-updatesd-helper
> > > > if this is the case the don't kill, else just waste it.
> > > 
> > > When is it ever going to be running but not be the pid
> > > in /var/run/yum.pid?  I mean, there's a slight window I guess but it's
> > > not that relevant
> > > 
> > 
> > I didn't think it grabbed the lock for its ENTIRE run, I thought it just
> > had it when it was doing something. 
> 
> The helper isn't ever running unless it's doing something...
> 

Ah, sorry, I was thinking of yum-updatesd. So we can't shut down the
helper, obviously but we can check for the difference and emit something
intelligent.

if helper_is_not_running:
   exit nicely
else:
   say something about your mom, why you should leave the helper alone

-sv