Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-01-02-separate-usr-now-requires-an-initramfs: add news item

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Tue, 02 Jan 2024, Eli Schwartz wrote:

> +++ b/2024-01-02-separate-usr-now-requires-an-initramfs/2024-01-02-separate-usr-now-requires-an-initramfs.txt

The short-name is rather long. GLEP 42 strongly recommends to stay below
20 characters:
https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0042.html#news-item-identities

> +Title: Separate /usr now requires an initramfs
> +Author: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>
> +Content-Type: text/plain
> +Posted: 2024-01-02
> +Revision: 1
> +News-Item-Format: 2.0
> +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/baselayout[split-usr]

This is not a valid header. (Format 2.0 doesn't have Content-Type.)

> +In 2013, Gentoo policy determined that separate /usr without an initramfs was
> +officially no longer supported:
> +
> +- https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/filesystem.html#pg0202
> +- https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2013/2013-09-27-initramfs-required/2013-09-27-initramfs-required.en.txt?id=a79dd69b0cca439bc0c483c9193c79e0554819d0

The 2013-09-27-initramfs-required news item already said:

| Linux systems which have / and /usr on separate file systems but do not
| use an initramfs will not be supported starting on 01-Nov-2013.
|
| If you have / and /usr on separate file systems and you are not
| currently using an initramfs, you must set one up before this date.
| Otherwise, at some point on or after this date, upgrading packages
| will make your system unbootable.

It is also in the Handbook since 2014:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Optional:_Building_an_initramfs

What has changed that we would need another news item?

Ulrich

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