Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress?

[Roy Marles <roy@marples.name>]

On Saturday 01 March 2008 02:08:44 Duncan wrote:
> Is direct upgrade from previous baselayout-2.0.0-rcX going to be
> supported?

Existing configs should work just fine - with the exception of the modules 
config. It's been moved to /etc/conf.d/modules instead of 
the /etc/modules.autoload.d folder. There is no automated migration as 
complex setups would go wrong.

> I was running that for some time and just now added and 
> upgraded to the via layman version.  There's a blocker, of course, as
> openrc is now providing most of the files that baselayout did.
>
> The problem is that unmerging the old 2.0.0-rcX baselayout in ordered to
> resolve the blockage is SCARY, since it leaves the system basically
> unbootable until the new setup is merged and at least basically
> configured.  There's also the issue of not knowing for sure just what's
> going to still be around in terms of config files and the like, since
> unmerging baselayout isn't exactly an everyday thing.
>
> FWIW, I took the jump anyway, and the etc-update seemed to go reasonably
> well, but I've not rebooted yet...

As others pointed out, this is a package manager issue and those blockers are 
there because of this. Not an OpenRC issue as such ;)

Thanks

Roy
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