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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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