Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:52:37 +0200 From: "Ian FREISLICH" <ianf@clue.co.za> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Ports with daemons on uninstall... Message-ID: <E1UyObF-0000Rh-P5@clue.co.za>
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Hi I have to ask if there's a standard for the way ports should handle their daemons when the port is uninstalled. I've encountered 3 varients of ports behaviour on uninstall: 1. Do nothing 2. Stop the daemon 3. Ask if the daemon should be stopped #1 closely followed by #3 are the least irritating when it comes to portupgrade because you can at least have the service running while upgrading. At least with #3 the upgrade gets paused until the propmpt is answered and you're then aware that some service will go away immediately so you can be prepared to restart it. #2 is extremely irritating because upgrading with portupgrade etc kills the service. For instance isc-dhcpd* does this which means that for some time, dhcp may be unavailable. It could be less irritating if it would automatically start the service, but that can have its own problems. Does the project have a preferred method for handling running daenmons on uninstall? I know that Linux will even start daemons on install. Ian -- Ian Freislich
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