upgrading mysql-server

[Gerard Seibert]

Riemer Palstra wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:08:03PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > And it shuts down my mysql server, but does not start it again. That's
> > not very nice. Should the upgrade not handle this?
> 
> I'm not aware of any port doing this. If you use portupgrade, use the
> AFTERINSTALL configuration options to call the rc.d scripts and restart.

You can configure 'portmanager' to stop and restart a program also. I
was having the same problem with MySQL. After configuring 'portmanager'
to properly handle MySQL, I never had another problem with it.

Just my 2¢.


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