On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:46:03PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:34:05 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > > > As long as this behavior only happens during pkg installs and never with > > ports, I'm OK. The worst is when a coworker forgets that the mysql port > > stops the daemon and my coworker upgrades with portmaster... the daemon > > is off the entire time mysql slowly compiles... > > I'm not familiar with portmaster, since I use portupgrade. That does the > build first, then the deinstall old/install new. Seems a sensible > approach anyway, in case the build fails. Doesn't portmaster work > similarly?
Yes. PM builds, creates a backup package, deinstalls the old packages, installs the new one.
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