Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:00:43 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring). Message-ID: <CADLo838faqGHgASAFN_3ymzD17vVZB=7xno9zRR9HHg0vcC0yQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3vugL=YVqzH6-u81dLitgZU55tEnuuBnfqwyg86Wf9t3g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110912230943.GD33455@guilt.hydra> <4E6E99BC.4050909@missouri.edu> <1315905051.1747.208.camel@xenon> <4E6F8A50.9060205@gmx.de> <1315942042.1747.258.camel@xenon> <4E6FD71D.9010207@gmx.de> <20110914181553.f6d31b0f.cjr@cruwe.de> <4E722F3F.3030606@wasikowski.net> <20110915180815.GA46983@guilt.hydra> <4E7247F2.7080207@wasikowski.net> <20110915183710.GA47127@guilt.hydra> <4E7253AF.7030602@wasikowski.net> <4E725782.3090107@gmx.de> <CADLo839_KJZGpjYcdFM1a3jqGCg4EHrz08xnNEQ30uW2c4uz7w@mail.gmail.com> <CAGMYy3vugL=YVqzH6-u81dLitgZU55tEnuuBnfqwyg86Wf9t3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 15 Sep 2011 21:28, "Xin LI" <delphij@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2011 20:52, "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > >> Am 15.09.2011 21:36, schrieb =C5=81ukasz W=C4=85sikowski: > >> > >> > BTW: You hate having a software update break your software. I hate when > >> > software updates turn off services on my servers. That's another thing > >> > portage do better - update won't turn off any service. You are supposed > >> > to restart services manually after doing etc-update. Speaking of which - > >> > another good idea worth adopting. > >> > >> Few ports stop services when getting deinstalled/upgraded, so it may b= e > >> worth pinging the affected ports' maintainers about it. > > > > Really? I thought it was supposed to be standard behaviour- the @stopdaemon > > line in pkg-plist facilitates that. > > While I totally understand why we do this, I have to say it's VERY > VERY annoying behavior especially when one upgrading a remote system > with multiple server daemon ports. One have to watch the whole > process carefully and restart the daemon manually. > > As part of symmetry, I think a reasonable behavior should be at least, > if pkg_delete kills the daemon, pkg_add or make install should start > it, and the user can optionally disable this behavior. > Hm, for my todo list :) Chris
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