Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:18:54 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and restarting of upgraded daemons Message-ID: <47E674DE.8000305@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080323144823.GA72507@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47E660A3.3050805@quip.cz> <20080323144823.GA72507@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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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. Yes, you are right, but there is not this functionality in current ports infrastructure (AFAIK), so I am happy that portupgrade does this job, but newer versions of portupgrade have some other "so called features", which I don't like, so I am trying to switch to portmaster. Miroslav Lachman
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