'pkg upgrade -f spamassassin' stops but doesn't restart spamd

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Sun Jan 7 16:19:10 UTC 2018


07.01.2018 22:10, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

>> I am following 11-STABLE and therefore upgrading my system quite frequently. During that process I do recompile all ports installed by poudriere and upgrade all ports after reboot.
> There are no consensus about what services should do on deinstall or upgrade. That's why there is such a mess in ports / packages.
> Some did nothing (my preferred way), some stop (but did not start) the service,
> some modify user edited config files (removing / disabling modules in httpd.conf so Apache is broken on each upgrade of module(s)).

There IS consensus on modifying config files while upgrade and it is written in our Porter's Handbook:
only unmodified files may be changes with upgrade. Any other behaviour is a bug that should be fixed.



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