On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 06:29:24PM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Dear all, > > it is always a pain if pkg upgrade a lot of packages to restart all > services to make sure update/security fixes are applied to all running > services. > > Is there an option in pkg that it restart services automatically or is > it OK if I would add a post-install script to the packages (I maintain) > that will include a "service foo restart"? > > What is best practice here? > A package self upgrading might cause issues: plugins not yet updated (hi dovecot), or services requiring an upgrade procedure. So activating a self restart of the service by default is a bad idea.
service -R command can simplify the procedure for the admin given it restarts all services already started. Another option is to activate an option of pkg(8) off by default: HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS = true; in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf which will automatically restart the services on upgrade. In the futur it is planed to move this into a trigger (executed at the end of the entire upgrade process) which will solve the "dovecot" issue, but not the one where upgrading requires a procedure. Best regards, Bapt
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