Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> >> /etc/modules.autoload.d has always allowed module parameters to appear
> >> after the module name.
> >>
> >> /etc/conf.d/modules has allowed a completely different syntax requiring
> >> variables based on the module name to be set with the module parameters.
> >>
> >> This is where Roy and I have been stuck as far as an automatic
> >> conversion process. The stuff you included in the openrc-9999 ebuild was
> >> something I had sent to Roy months ago before I realized module
> >> parameters would be an issue. Looking at a swath of various
> >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/ files, I haven't come up with shell code that
> >> does the right thing everytime with all the files, which is why I've
> >> left it up to being a manual process for the user and simply documenting
> >> it.
> >
> > expecting users to read and do it themselves is certainly a path to
> > destruction for many.  while i could have written it in shell, i just did
> > it in awk.  i hope you're just overstating things when you say months,
> > because FIXED:INCVS.
> >
> > we're going to need to extend the syntax anyways to allow for
> > per-version-per-module arguments.  unless openrc does that now ... Roy ?
>
> Currently OpenRC does not support per-version-per-module arguments. What
> is your proposed syntax?

i'd assume logically extended based on existing behavior.  Roy's done it now 
though.
-mike

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