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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:56:49 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$d588e$5dc6f2a2$53a64867$1395d2e3@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130527224021.GA18963@waltdnes.org

Walter Dnes posted on Mon, 27 May 2013 18:40:21 -0400 as excerpted:

>   What does this accomplish that could not be accomplished by...
> * placing a switcher script in /sbin
> * booting to single-user mode, and running the switcher script

FWIW I agree with you.

In part my post was to make it obvious that's really what we'll end up 
doing if we want any sort of robustness at all.  Otherwise there's simply 
too much that can go wrong.

But assuming people DO insist on traveling that road, there's only one 
way to do it robustly; thru some sort of single-user-mode by that name or 
something else.  And if it's going to be done, let's quit wasting time on 
all the too horribly brittle to think about if not simply broken methods 
that I've seen discussed, and get to it with something that really is 
proven to work, a single-user-mode of some sort, with scripts to simplify 
the already simple and potentially break those doing something complex, 
sure, but if anything's going to work, that'd be it.  And if even that 
can't be made to work or is found not to be worth the hassle, well...

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25  9:54 [gentoo-dev] eselect init Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 10:25 ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-25 11:57   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  1:52     ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-26  8:50       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  2:02     ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-26  8:56       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:08   ` Matthew Thode
2013-05-26 14:13     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 23:54       ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:13 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 12:03   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 12:25     ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 15:42   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:29 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 12:12   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 13:15   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 17:35     ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 19:49   ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-25 12:13 ` hasufell
2013-05-25 15:51   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 13:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:09   ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-25 19:55     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 20:07       ` Alex Xu
2013-05-25 20:59         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:59       ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-26 13:58         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:54         ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 13:15       ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 14:07         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:44           ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26  6:43 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  8:58   ` Robert David
2013-05-26  9:20     ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  9:32       ` Robert David
2013-05-26  9:45       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:09         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:45           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:01             ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26  9:21     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:01       ` Robert David
2013-05-26 10:11         ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26 10:18           ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-26 11:28           ` hasufell
2013-05-26 12:10         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26  9:55   ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 10:39     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:57     ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:40       ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 12:08         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 12:24           ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 14:58         ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-27 10:36           ` [gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: " Duncan
2013-05-27 20:26             ` Alex Xu
2013-05-27 22:40             ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-28  9:56               ` Duncan [this message]
2013-05-28 11:56                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29  0:36                   ` Duncan
2013-05-29  8:52                     ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 18:15                       ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-29 19:56                         ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 20:55                           ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30  0:06                             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30  0:22                               ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30  1:36                                 ` Duncan
2013-05-30  6:35                                 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30 20:41                                   ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30  6:46                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30 13:54                                   ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-31  6:21                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30  6:30                             ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22 19:35                             ` Markos Chandras
2013-05-30  2:52                           ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-30  6:19                             ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30  6:36                               ` Dale
2013-05-30  6:31                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-28  3:55           ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-05-28  4:19             ` Michał Górny
2013-05-28  4:43               ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-28 12:15                 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-28 12:15                 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 11:58       ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:52         ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 15:39           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 16:41     ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:48       ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:55         ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 22:58           ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 23:47             ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-27 23:45               ` [gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init] Walter Dnes
2013-05-28 15:07                 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-01  9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init Steven J. Long
2013-06-01 11:43   ` Steven J. Long
2013-06-02  9:15   ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-02 18:20     ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 18:48       ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-08 13:37         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 22:35       ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-06-03  0:37         ` Walter Dnes
2013-06-03  0:57           ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-03  7:03           ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-03  9:42           ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-03  6:19         ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-03  6:26         ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2013-06-04 18:55         ` William Hubbs
2013-06-04 19:09           ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-08 13:28         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 10:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-20 17:10   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:48     ` William Hubbs
2013-06-25  4:53       ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:56   ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2013-06-21  2:39     ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21  4:16       ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 10:23         ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 15:16           ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:23             ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 16:42               ` William Hubbs
2013-06-22 11:23                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2013-06-22 11:57                   ` hasufell
2013-06-21 19:34               ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22  1:27                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22  1:48                   ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 15:29             ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 16:13               ` Markos Chandras
2013-06-21 16:50                 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 19:36                   ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 10:30       ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 11:19         ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 11:26           ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-21 11:50             ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 14:36               ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:48                 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22  6:59                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-22 10:07                     ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22 11:13                       ` Michael Weber
2013-06-22 11:26                         ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-22 17:05                       ` Luca Barbato

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