Re: Ports with daemons on uninstall...

From: Lars Engels <lars.engels_at_0x20.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:56:52 +0200
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:46:03PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:34:05 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> 
> > As long as this behavior only happens during pkg installs and never with
> > ports, I'm OK. The worst is when a coworker forgets that the mysql port
> > stops the daemon and my coworker upgrades with portmaster... the daemon
> > is off the entire time mysql slowly compiles...
> 
> I'm not familiar with portmaster, since I use portupgrade. That does the 
> build first, then the deinstall old/install new. Seems a sensible 
> approach anyway, in case the build fails. Doesn't portmaster work 
> similarly?

Yes. PM builds, creates a backup package, deinstalls the old packages,
installs the new one.

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