portupgrade and daemons.

Kay Lehmann kay_lehmann at web.de
Sun May 23 06:15:35 PDT 2004


Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:52:06PM +0200, Kay Lehmann wrote:
> 
>>As far as I know this isn't the job of portupgrade. Normally it should 
>>be handeled by the port itself, which could stop daemons with 
>>appropriate set (de)install targets.
>>I think a lot of the ports do this quite properly. Moving this to Mk 
>>looks quite complicated and I think it would be the best to leave it in 
>>the ports, since they should know what is required to do.
>>
> 
> 
> Ah ok.  That makes sense. Do you know of a port that does this properly
> off the top of your head?
> 
> Joe
I think cups-base has some code.

Greets,
Kay


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