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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:44:39 -0700
From:      Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Alex Trull <alex@trull.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running should they fail.
Message-ID:  <4ACBC857.2030207@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091005135842.GA8629@atarininja.org>
References:  <20091004141118.GG95662@syndicate.internationalconspiracy.org>	<4AC8F7EF.9010303@FreeBSD.org> <20091005135842.GA8629@atarininja.org>

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Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:30:55PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Alex Trull wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I realised that because portupgrade/portmaster don't always 
>>> cleanly restart processes that have died due to being 
>>> upgraded (mysqld, often!) that this was something I wanted 
>>> to fix.
>> I can't speak to portupgrade, however for portmaster there is no such
>> facility whatsoever. The admin is expected to disable things prior to
>> an upgrade and re-enable them when the upgrade is done. I don't feel
>> that this is an overwhelming burden. :)
> 
> There is the @stopdaemon directive in plists (which gets translated into
> @unexec to forcestop the script). Some ports use it and some do not.
> Personally I think ports doing this automatically are quite annoying,
> and would love to rip them all out from the ports. Something like
> portmaster growing support for it would be welcome provided it does not
> happen by default.

+1

I think this feature should be user-controllable (or, the 'make install'
should be 'restart'ing the rc.d script at very least).

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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