Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday 11 May 2011 07:27:32 Dale wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Dale.
> > 
> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:55:01PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that
> >> have done theirs?  Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there
> >> issues?  I'm mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I
> >> have.  Just a simple works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice.
> >> List issues if you had any.
> > 
> > For me, it just worked.  But it took me well over two hours, and that
> > was
> > after spending several hours studying the FM (practically memorising it,
> > actually).  Things which threaten to make my PC unbootable have that
> > effect on me.
> > 
> > I was surprised by the number of config files which had changed (though
> > I was surprised not to see inittab amongst them).  I had a few problems
> > with consolefont and keymaps, but that probably had to do with my
> > converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 the day before.
> > 
> > I take my hat off to Christian Faulhammer and William Hubbs, true
> > gentlemen, who took so much trouble to make a difficult transition so
> > smooth and easy.
> > 
> >> Thanks for the feedback.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dale
> >> 
> >> :-)  :-)
> 
> After reading some replies here, I did mine.  It went well.  I agree,
> hats off to the folks who worked on this.  Seems like their work paid
> off very well.  I just hope everyone else's is as easy as mine.
> 
> There was a LOT of config files to update.  It appears that a LOT of it
> was done during the update tho.
> 
> I'm just glad this is done.  Sort of been dreading this.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

I actually did mine before noticing this thread and didn't actually pay much 
attention to it all.

Not had any issues and didn't need to spend much time in fixing anything. The 
only problem I had was that "/etc/init.d/eth0" had dissapeared.
That was easily fixed.

--
Joost