Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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, […] > Beg pardon, but I am aware of this being discussed twice on this list and > both times there was a clear consensus in both cases that it was > unacceptable or a port/package upgrade to touch running daemons. There > were arguments that some port might make changes in underlying files that > could break a daemon in some way, though I can't recall any actual examples. > > The only real argument was that leaving a daemon with a serious > vulnerability running was not acceptable. A competent admin should never > let this happen, but I'm sure it has. FTR: I have filed PR 225030 on this. Thanks and regards, Michael _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
