Should a package restart on upgrade itself

[Franco Fichtner]

Hi Matthias,

As far as I know, pkg package scripts' runaway processes are
reaped since a few versions, so you can't restart from there
anymore.

Maybe there is a way to detach correctly, I don't know.


Cheers,
Franco

> On 27. Jun 2017, at 6:29 PM, Matthias Fechner <idefix at fechner.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> it is always a pain if pkg upgrade a lot of packages to restart all
> services to make sure update/security fixes are applied to all running
> services.
> 
> Is there an option in pkg that it restart services automatically or is
> it OK if I would add a post-install script to the packages (I maintain)
> that will include a "service foo restart"?
> 
> What is best practice here?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Matthias
> 
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