Wesley Shields wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:48:23AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick 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
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
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.
Some existing ports (such as smartmontools, i.e. smartd) do this, while
others (such as postfix) do not.
There is an @stopdaemon facility which can be used in the plist. In
fact, it might be a smart idea to remove the way smartmontools does it
and replace it with @stopdaemon for consistency sake.
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.
Personally, I do not want anything stopping or starting services on it's
own. That is something that I, as an administrator, should be handling.
Of course others are entitled to disagree. :)
If I am upgrading just one port, I can restart it manualy, but if I do
someting like `portmaster -a`, it is long running job and I do not want
to wait and check for each port when it is right time to manualy restart
the daemon.
So I think portmaster can have some hooks to call user defined code
(sourced from portmaster.rc?) before or after install routine.
With that said, it may be interesting to have a knob which allows for
services to be started right away if desired by the user, and if the
port supports such a situation (ie: it does not require any
configuration after the install). The default for the user-defined knob
would be off, for at least POLA reasons.
Miroslav Lachman
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