pkg issue after FreeBSD 11 upgrade

[Cassiano Peixoto]

Ok I know about HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS, it's a good approach. But how to deal
with when I need to restart a service without upgrading? Reaper
functionnality is a trouble for many administrators who made meta ports to
manage their servers. I really think it could be a option to be
enabled/disabled. Can you see this possibility?

Thanks.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:55:22AM -0300, Cassiano Peixoto wrote:
> > Hi Baptiste,
> >
> > Why it used to work on FreeBSD 10? It stopped worked on FreeBSD 11 only.
>
> It only worked on FreeBSD 10 prior to 10.2, the reaper functionnality in
> freebsd
> kernel appeared in 10.2
> >
> > Cron is just an example, I manage more than 50 FreeBSD servers, and I've
> > been using ports for years to update some configs and restart the service
> > on all of them. Many times I need to change nginx config, ldap, etc. I
> just
> > need to restart the service.
>
> HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS=true in your pkg.conf and pkg will automatically restart
> anything rc script provide once the package containing it is upgrading.
>
> This is off by default because in many cases it is dangerous (database
> upgrades,
> dovecot like things upgrade etc). But if you know what you are doing it
> does the
> job.
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
>