Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:17:33 +0100 From: Eric <freebsdlists-ports@chillibear.com> To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, <lev@FreeBSD.org>, ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re-starting daemons across upgrades? (was: Thank you (for making the ports less boring).) Message-ID: <CA99352D.219D1%freebsdlists-ports@chillibear.com> In-Reply-To: <4E73709D.5020004@gmx.de>
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> We do not currently have a standard procedure for that, nor do we record > the necessary state -- perhaps we should just discuss, vote, and add a > paragraph to the porter's handbook. > > We also need to bring the authors (or volunteers) for the de-facto > standard upgrade tools into the loop. > > My thoughts: > > - give the user a choice to configure whether to restart services > > - optional: give the users a chance to configure this per-service > > - discuss whether we want/need to support this (a) in the framework that > we currently use, (b) only in pkgng, (c) in portmaster and portupgrade > where necessary. Just for ref regarding (c) on the portupgrade wiki page[1] it mentions using AFTERINSTALL in pkgtools.conf for doing automatic stop/start/restart. [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/portupgrade
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