On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:27:21PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > 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.
That's entirely up to Doug, but it could potentially be a good idea IMO. It's kind of like the description I give below but moving it out of ports and into portmaster, and making the code entirely user defined. >> 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. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"