On Saturday 11 September 2010 23:35:43 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <ite...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > This 'stop the service before we install' seems to be a new fashion, > > usually unneeded/disruptive. > > IMO this should only happen when it's really needed, and with some big > > warning printed. > > And perhaps with a restart service attempt afterwards? (maybe interactive > as in "do you want me to restart the service y/n?") > Just my 0.02 euros.
In general, the only safe method is to stop the service before deinstall and to start it after the upgrade. If a service must not be interrupted, it probably shouldn't be updated in first place. Quite some time ago one daemon always ceased to work for me after a portupgrade. I've added the following lines in my pkgtools.conf (taken from the sample file) and everything worked fine afterwards. BEFOREDEINSTALL = { # Automatically stop the service for each package that has a # rc script enabled '*' => proc { |origin| cmd_stop_rc(origin) }, } AFTERINSTALL = { # Automatically start the server for each package that # installs a rc file enabled '*' => proc { |origin| cmd_start_rc(origin) }, } _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"