On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote:
> > There are no consensus about what services should do on deinstall or > upgrade. That's why there is such a mess in ports / packages. > Some did nothing (my preferred way), some stop (but did not start) the > service, some modify user edited config files (removing / disabling modules > in httpd.conf so Apache is broken on each upgrade of module(s)). > > Miroslav Lachman Beg pardon, but I am aware of this being discussed twice on this list and both times there was a clear consensus in both cases that it was unacceptable or a port/package upgrade to touch running daemons. There were arguments that some port might make changes in underlying files that could break a daemon in some way, though I can't recall any actual examples. The only real argument was that leaving a daemon with a serious vulnerability running was not acceptable. A competent admin should never let this happen, but I'm sure it has. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
