On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Ian FREISLICH <i...@clue.co.za> wrote: > 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. >
Personally, I prefer that when uninstalling a port, that the daemon gets stopped. But if you are upgrading a port, then you will want the daemon to be re-started. This should be possible with the new pkg tools, but I don't know if it is implemented: pkg install isc-dhcpd42-server - pkg installs the port doesn't start service - admin starts service with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd start pkg upgrade isc-dhcp42-server - pkg checks the repository and finds a new version and asks if you want it installed - pkg checks if the service(s) is running, saves the status for later - pkg uninstalls the old port - pkg installs the new port - pkg checks the saved status to see if it needs to restart the service(s) pkg uninstall isc-dhcpd42-server - pkg uninstalls the port and stops the service if running -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
