Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:23:44 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports with daemons on uninstall... Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sJdMjbZCpUp_%2BWzzYBqGkiuChBy%2BpF6SsWn7XqnMr0ig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1373900246.23916.140661255858745.1BA622A0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <E1UyObF-0000Rh-P5@clue.co.za> <201307141949.r6EJnZPp009319@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <1373895245.27518.140661255822389.195BA409@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20130715144408.6af32858@gumby.homeunix.com> <1373900246.23916.140661255858745.1BA622A0@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013, at 8:44, RW wrote: > > > > Is that really correct? I would expect the deinstall to be done after > > the build has completed successfully. > > > > That might not be accurate with a current portmaster, but we used to > have that happen all too frequently. I just checked the plist and it has > @stopdaemon mysql-server, so I'm guessing portmaster would run that too > prematurely. > The reality is that some ports take a LONG time to just install, especially when libtool is involved. I want the old daemon running until the old one is installed. Then either the make or I can restart the daemon which results in a downtime of about two or three seconds. Stopping before the new version is installed guarantees a much longer outage. Yes, I also see some possible nasty races in a few cases, not most would be fine. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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