Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 12:15 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Roy Marples wrote:
> > This is just a heads up for getting baselayout-2 stable. Next week I
> > plan to put baselayout-2.0.0_rc1 into the tree without any keywords and
> > it will be removed from package.mask (keeping the current alphas masked
> > though). Arch teams will then be pinged on a bug to keyword
> > baselayout-2.
> 
> You should find someone from the GDP to write some user migration docs. 

Good idea. Any volunteers?

> The two things that spring to mind are having to use init scripts for 
> device-mapper and crypto fs stuff (I can see lots of unbootable systems 
> for those who don't realise this...) and having to compile the new 
> splashutils *after* baselayout to keep fbsplash working.

I don't actually know how to set those up or what the migration path
would be. Maybe devzero and strerror could document this as I understand
they do this.

Thanks

Roy

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