portmaster and restarting of upgraded daemons

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Sun Mar 23 06:52:20 PDT 2008


I am almost new to portmaster, so I got a question - is there any 
possibility to restart installed services as in portupgrade with defined 
BEFOREBUILD / BEFOREDEINSTALL / AFTERINSTALL? Or is there any future 
plan to do so? It is annoying if I end up with some dead services after 
upgrade just because I forgot to manualy do 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/some_daemon restart

Next question - is there any documentation for portmaster.rc / 
.portmasterrc? I can't find any documentation for it on the internet, 
just some notices to search in portmaster script (source file) for 
"while getopts", where variables are defined, but it is not usual way to 
get documentation ;)

And last question - /etc/portmaster.rc - is it realy right place 
according to man hier? I would expect it in /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc.

Miroslav Lachman


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