freebsd stable - Aug 2017 - pkg issue after FreeBSD 11 upgrade

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
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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
>