Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:47:42 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.subr extensions Message-ID: <B1298869-3266-11D9-A7A8-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20041109080124.GA59253@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Volker Stolz wrote:
> In gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports, you wrote:
>> - define RC_FILES, which contain a list of all the files to be
>> stored in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. This file may contain macros like
>> %%LOCALBASE%% and %%RC_SUBR%%.
>
> Excellent! While we discussed this at the ports BOF at EuroBSDCon, it
> was suggested to have a knob for deciding whether to run
> "${RC_SCRIPT} restart" on updating a port -- it has to be configurable
> since the administrator might want fine-grained control. Any chance of
> adding this as sugar on top?
This might be a bad idea, because:
- a port might not run well when deinstalled (even when it does on the
porters machine, it might fail in a different configuration)
generally I think daemons should be terminated before deinstalling the
port
- the configuration files might be incompatible with the new version
Generally, you can achieve this effect with portupgrade(1) (see
BEFOREBUILD/AFTERINSTALL in pkgtools.conf(5)). What might be useful
could be a `make start|stop|restart'.
-Oliver
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