Cleaning out the ports

2006-12-08 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
remove them easily? Best regards, Erwin Van de Velde ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems upgrading glib20

2006-10-24 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
Hi all, This is an error in the compilation of icu and has been reported a couple of weeks ago... It would be nice if someone found the time to look into this as it indeed blocks multiple updates on many systems. Best regards, Erwin On Monday 23 October 2006 20:49, Bill Moran wrote: > Issuing

Re: Restarting services

2006-09-25 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
> Well each server/service would need a program to check the syntax of the > current config file to ensure that it will work. > Otherwise, imho, you could only try and error which is not a clean > solution. You could also warn when big configuration changes happen and not restart the service in t

Re: Restarting services

2006-09-25 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
On Monday 25 September 2006 11:26, Vasil Dimov wrote: > IMHO in this case the administrator should be changed, > not the way ports operate. Building idiot-proof system is impossible and > leads to the: > > Shaw's Principle: > Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will > w

Restarting services

2006-09-25 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
Dear all, Almost every port containing a service stops the service before updating but does not restart it afterwards. I was wondering how difficult it can be to restart the updated service after installing the files? In my opinion, it would be less error-prone than hoping for the administrator