From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C18C215803E for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2024 08:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A16292BC031; Tue, 2 Jan 2024 08:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 595012BC02B for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2024 08:23:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: Eli Schwartz Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, pr@gentoo.org, sam@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-01-02-separate-usr-now-requires-an-initramfs: add news item In-Reply-To: <20240102041018.585420-1-eschwartz93@gmail.com> (Eli Schwartz's message of "Mon, 1 Jan 2024 23:10:05 -0500") References: <20240102041018.585420-1-eschwartz93@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:22:51 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c1375fdd-1a9c-48f0-a276-ab401aa449f2 X-Archives-Hash: 0441442c2d4ac89dcbda3742500c9083 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain >>>>> 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 > +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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFDBAEBCAAtFiEEtDnZ1O9xIP68rzDbUYgzUIhBXi4FAmWTx9sPHHVsbUBnZW50 b28ub3JnAAoJEFGIM1CIQV4u+GwIAMQnjJ39G/3L2mRHCVYmFScw4hq+kuhtl8en XQF0feJm55VPxsBr2jTOO/jVZIt8ooTj2XNQMgl+vx+niIcEiVxTb3RCIO1MOx/k 1gHcq2vwdqnFjYEy0ZwYjnwhRSGTvQJx799ii9DhZTctBtEbSArYiYq+fwrmpvzQ R0Mfa+EZIUhLfTQN1Ehf5+ZZKDyT4eWwzxOjPzdHpCGMF1sCiD1iTJP8YVpSMFRF aH1kKFLjE7Mh36mVlnVdR6g2Cj0H1jwQmndeQViI7tEzJxuGCnLffA0Z4FVScqsu u5XopkyLuFPA/j7FqjnvIX7pPatRWxkXqILTJ0xSKRJ+QIz8P6E= =7JXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--