[Tor-BSD] FreeBSD/HardenedBSD - auto updating packages

[nusenu]

> There's two ways of doing it:
> 
> 1. Run `pkg update` first to update the repo metadata, then use `pkg
> version` (with extra arguments) to check if the tor package gets
> upgraded. Cache this as a boolean value. Run `pkg upgrade` and after
> it's finished upgrading all packages, if the cached boolean value is
> true, then restart tor. This can be integrated into the script that
> gets written by cron.
> 2. Write a plugin for pkg that restarts services whenever packages
> with enabled rc.d scripts get updated. I would prefer this route as it
> would be generically applied and useful outside of just tor.
> 
> I can do either option. However, my time is limited and it'd take me
> around two weeks to getting around to doing it. 

Until this is addressed I removed the BSDUpdates reference 
so people do not assume this will update and restart their services
automatically.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide?action=diff&version=191




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