From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVPIs-0000wz-Hd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:50:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20EB6E06FA; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84E5E06FA for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberpc.marples.name (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6C2190087 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:50:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Roy Marles To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout-2 progress? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:50:50 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47C812CF.2020903@wildgooses.com> <200802291707.17936.roy@marples.name> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803011050.50697.roy@marples.name> X-Archives-Salt: 0ff19531-875f-4676-b832-2ccda0667668 X-Archives-Hash: a8d9bd8d57a1a4887c6ef6ab20e21e91 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 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list