> We do not currently have a standard procedure for that, nor do we record > the necessary state -- perhaps we should just discuss, vote, and add a > paragraph to the porter's handbook. > > We also need to bring the authors (or volunteers) for the de-facto > standard upgrade tools into the loop. > > My thoughts: > > - give the user a choice to configure whether to restart services > > - optional: give the users a chance to configure this per-service > > - discuss whether we want/need to support this (a) in the framework that > we currently use, (b) only in pkgng, (c) in portmaster and portupgrade > where necessary.
Just for ref regarding (c) on the portupgrade wiki page[1] it mentions using AFTERINSTALL in pkgtools.conf for doing automatic stop/start/restart. [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/portupgrade _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"