Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: Text/Plain, Size: 2401 bytes --]

On Monday 02 May 2011 23:07:00 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>> > Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge?
> >>> 
> >>> I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command
> >>> do I run today to unmask the version level they will make stable next
> >>> week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature
> >>> looks into the future like that.
> >> 
> >> The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for
> >> that.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Neil Bothwick
> > 
> > Life's a crap shoot. (As are all my index futures trades today.) Sounds
> > good.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> 
> OK, I'm writing this from an updated Gentoo VM running in Virtualbox
> on my (as yet) not updated Gentoo server. Things went well. The only
> semi-issue that came up for me so far was the rc-sys="" variable not
> being set. The way upgrade doc is written I had the impression that
> this only mattered if I was in a machine that ran VMs on it and not to
> be done in the VM itself. Seems that you really want rc_sys to be set
> for any Gentoo install I guess.

Ah! I forgot to mention this - it showed up on mine too.  You need to read 
this /etc/rc.conf section:
====================================================
# This is the subsystem type. Valid options on Linux:
# ""        - nothing special
# "lxc"     - Linux Containers
# "openvz"  - Linux OpenVZ
# "prefix"  - Prefix
# "uml"     - Usermode Linux
# "vserver" - Linux vserver
# "xen0"    - Xen0 Domain
# "xenU"    - XenU Domain
# If this is commented out, automatic detection will be attempted.
# Note that autodetection will not work in a prefix environment or in a
# linux container.
#
# This should be set to the value representing the environment this file is
# PRESENTLY in, not the virtualization the environment is capable of.
#rc_sys=""
rc_sys=""
====================================================

I've used the "nothing special" option, but yours might need to be something 
different on the VMhost.  The guest would be "nothing special" I would think.  
(Not sure what the "prefix" is ...
-- 
Regards,
Mick

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]