Re-starting daemons across upgrades? (was: Thank you (for making the ports less boring).)

[Eric]

> We do not currently have a standard procedure for that, nor do we record
> the necessary state -- perhaps we should just discuss, vote, and add a
> paragraph to the porter's handbook.
> 
> We also need to bring the authors (or volunteers) for the de-facto
> standard upgrade tools into the loop.
> 
> My thoughts:
> 
> - give the user a choice to configure whether to restart services
> 
> - optional: give the users a chance to configure this per-service
> 
> - discuss whether we want/need to support this (a) in the framework that
> we currently use, (b) only in pkgng, (c) in portmaster and portupgrade
> where necessary.

Just for ref regarding (c) on the portupgrade wiki page[1] it mentions using
AFTERINSTALL in pkgtools.conf for doing automatic stop/start/restart.

[1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/portupgrade