Baptiste Daroussin

this is not failing on purpose for now, there are many things in the port tree that should be fixed before we do get to a point, that we stop...

I need to find time, to write down all of it yes, I will to make that happen in the next couple of weeks.

after checking the current status of the ports tree, most of the issues are gone. so it might be safe now to die on script failure. One important left issue...

the outcone would be slightly different, if you die in a middle of a transaction do end up into an unstable state: half upgraded, some things might get broken more...

pkg always try first to self upgrade its database. otherwise it might end up with a schema which is not valid and have commands failing with weird issue. if pkg...

it does not check the kernel but the userland because of jail support which might report a newer kernel, what matters is the ABI of the userland you are running...

I never said anything here, but yes this is a welcomed feature.

There is an option for pkg to restart the daemons: HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS which imho should end up becoming a trigger that react on rc.d addition. Isn't it enough? If we ever...

to be honnest the best and the safest it so have a trigger which executes when the whole transaction is over, a trigger that looks for rc.d modification. It will...

What are you trying to achieve, the problem is in the middle of a transaction, the risk is to stop in an unstable state.