Re: [gentoo-dev] news item -- baselayout-1.x deprecation final warning

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Alex Xu wrote:
> On 07/04/13 04:13 PM, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > On 2013.04.07 20:36, William Hubbs wrote:
> > If you do not upgrade your systems to openrc-0.11.8 before it leaves 
> > the tree, you may need to reinstall them.
> > </quote>
> > 
> > I think you mean
> > 
> > If you do not upgrade your systems to baselayout-2 and openrc-0.11.8 
> > before openrc-0.11.8 leaves the tree, you may need to reinstall them.
> > 
> > The problem is with baselayout-1 and that's what needs to be updated.
> > The "you may need to reinstall them" is a bit over the top.  You can 
> > always pick up the pieces with a liveCD.

That's why I said "may". I haven't attempted that migration manually, so
I don't know how easy or difficult it would be. You may be able to do
that, but you will be basically on your own to figure it out.

> > Do you need to point out that the old (" ... ") syntax will no longer 
> > be supported, or do you intend to tolerate the baselayout-1 syntax in 
> > /etc/conf.d/net and friends a while longer.
>
> Notably, NetworkManager generates old-style net files.

This issue with the conf.d/net syntax is a separate one and will be
handled later.

> > 
> > A friendly link to the update guide 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
> > may be in order too.

This is already there.

> > I've seen many users on baselayout-2 with baselayout-1 net files. This 
> > news item will bypass them.

That is ok, I am just talking about the automatic support for the
Migration.

William


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