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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:17:59 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Should a package restart on upgrade itself
Message-ID:  <a847f0a6-25fd-6fb4-3882-202e69b70785@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20180627095817.uvr3xgid4vflbmba@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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Mathieu Arnold wrote on 2018/06/27 11:58:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:27:49PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> Miroslav Lachman wrote on 2017/06/27 19:32:
[...]
>> Again and again and again...
>>
>> Can we have some written (or do we have?) policy to not stop/start/restart
>> services from some @preunexec / @postexec targets?
>> I really don't like that some packages are still shutting down or trying to
>> restart in the middle of the pkg upgrade process.
> 
> There is a policy, it MUST NOT be done.

Do you have a link to docs where it is stated? I really would like to 
bookmark it so next time this discussion appear I will just post the 
link to docs ;)

> Services are stopped and started with the rc file they install, and pkg
> does it when its configuration variable HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS is set to
> true.
> 
> Please point out to ports doing this so that they can be fixed.
> 

I know about the open-vm-tools. I will let you know if I will find another.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman



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