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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:09:24 -0400
From:      Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster and restarting of upgraded daemons
Message-ID:  <20080323110924.7ba99323@scorpio>
In-Reply-To: <20080323144823.GA72507@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <47E660A3.3050805@quip.cz> <20080323144823.GA72507@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:48:23 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:52:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> > I am almost new to portmaster, so I got a question - is there any=20
> > possibility to restart installed services as in portupgrade with
> > defined BEFOREBUILD / BEFOREDEINSTALL / AFTERINSTALL? Or is there
> > any future plan to do so? It is annoying if I end up with some dead
> > services after upgrade just because I forgot to manualy
> > do /usr/local/etc/rc.d/some_daemon restart
>=20
> This is more a complaint about the existing ports infrastructure, as
> IMHO, it's something that should be handled there and not necessarily
> by "third-party" port management utilities.
>=20
> Some existing ports (such as smartmontools, i.e. smartd) do this,
> while others (such as postfix) do not.
>=20
> There are pros and cons to what you want.  I myself have never managed
> to conclude if the pros outweigh the cons -- or vice-versa -- but I
> have thought about it before.

I have had serious problems in the past when ports like MySQL were
updated but not restarted. Both 'portupgrade' and 'portmanager' can
correctly handle these situations however. I have no personal
information regarding 'portmaster' other than the fact that I am
unlikely to switch to a new port's maintenance program. Nothing I have
seen indicates that it is any more reliable, secure, useful or faster
than either 'portupgrade' or 'portmanager'.

--=20
Gerard
gerard@seibercom.net

There are running jobs.
Why don't you go chase them?

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