work in progress

debian/interchange.init

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # interchange.init - Interchange start-stop script
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2000 Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>
+# Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>
 
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 DAEMON=/usr/sbin/interchange
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ USER=interchange
 
 case "$1" in
   start)
+	# skip start during unfinished installation
+	if [ -f /var/run/interchange-install ]; then
+		exit 0
+	fi
 	echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
 	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/interchange/$NAME.pid \
 		--chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- --serve $MODE \

debian/interchange.postinst

@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ fi
 # Make configuration files owned by the interchange user
 chown -R $USER.$GROUP /etc/interchange
 
+# Check if we delay the startup
+rm /var/run/interchange-install
+
 #DEBHELPER#
 
 # Don't wait on Interchange to close file handles

debian/interchange.preinst

@@ -24,5 +24,11 @@ if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] && dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 4.8.0-1; then
 	rm -rf /usr/lib/interchange/etc
 fi
 
+# We use the file /var/run/interchange-install to record 
+# the installed interchange packages, so only one server
+# restart is needed 
+
+echo interchange > /var/run/interchange-install
+
 #DEBHELPER#