Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:52:06 +0200 From: Kay Lehmann <kay_lehmann@web.de> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade and daemons. Message-ID: <40B09066.1020300@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20040523101300.GA43113@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040523101300.GA43113@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote: > A number of ports run daemons, such as postfix, which are started in > /usr/local/tc/rc.d. Portupgrade doesn't appear to know anything about > these, and so it will quite happily attempt to upgrade a daemon that is > still running. Idealally it ought to DTRT, which I guess is some > combination of shutdow the existing port down, upgrade it and then > restart it. There are some rudiments of knowledge about rc.d/ scripts > built into the Mk subsystem so I wonder whether it's possible to hook > into that in some way. > > Thoughts welcome. > > Joe As far as I know this isn't the job of portupgrade. Normally it should be handeled by the port itself, which could stop daemons with appropriate set (de)install targets. I think a lot of the ports do this quite properly. Moving this to Mk looks quite complicated and I think it would be the best to leave it in the ports, since they should know what is required to do. Greets, Kay
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