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Date:      Sun, 7 Jan 2018 23:18:29 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Michael Grimm <trashcan@ellael.org>,  freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'pkg upgrade -f spamassassin' stops but doesn't restart spamd
Message-ID:  <5A524855.2040901@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <5A523873.2050001@quip.cz>
References:  <76627A89-D7E9-4010-910B-5F25886E7E7E@ellael.org> <5A523873.2050001@quip.cz>

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07.01.2018 22:10, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

>> I am following 11-STABLE and therefore upgrading my system quite frequently. During that process I do recompile all ports installed by poudriere and upgrade all ports after reboot.
> 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)).

There IS consensus on modifying config files while upgrade and it is written in our Porter's Handbook:
only unmodified files may be changes with upgrade. Any other behaviour is a bug that should be fixed.




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