Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:02:05 +0200 From: Lars Thegler <lars@thegler.dk> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade and daemons. Message-ID: <40B0A0CD.90301@thegler.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040523122832.GF40899@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040523101300.GA43113@genius.tao.org.uk> <40B09066.1020300@web.de> <20040523122832.GF40899@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:52:06PM +0200, Kay Lehmann wrote: > >>As far as I know this isn't the job of portupgrade. Normally it should >>be handeled by the port itself, which could stop daemons with >>appropriate set (de)install targets. >>I think a lot of the ports do this quite properly. Moving this to Mk >>looks quite complicated and I think it would be the best to leave it in >>the ports, since they should know what is required to do. > > Ah ok. That makes sense. Do you know of a port that does this properly > off the top of your head? net/smokeping stops a running daemon in its pkg-deinstall script. It doesn't restart it after upgrade, though. Not sure whether that is a good idea anyway. /Lars
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