Should a package restart on upgrade itself

[Adam]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:

>
> Here's the diff for the commit you referenced:
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/emulators/open-vm-
> tools/pkg-plist?r1=457023&r2=457485&pathrev=457485
>
> Which part are you objecting to?
>
> I don't really have any objections to changing open-vm-tools.  I'll note
> that I inherited it in it's current state with regards to defaults and
> restarting, an it's probably worth fining out why it does those things
> before blatantly changing things.
>
> It's possible that open-vm-tools is a poor example of what you are talking
> about based on it providing services for the OS for running on VMWare
> versus running some application service or daemon , but I will have to
> think about this before taking a strongly held opinion.
>

FWIW most daemon equivalent upgrades on Windows force you to chose to
restart after an upgrade.  There isn't a lot of precedent for automatic,
non-confirming restarts in server class software IME.

-- 
Adam