Ports with daemons on uninstall...

Walter Hurry walterhurry at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 13:46:38 UTC 2013


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?



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