Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:58:00PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 07 Dec 2012 16:41:27 William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable.
> > > 
> > > The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the
> > > way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new
> > > openrc stable because of the cds/isos being broken.
> > > 
> > > There hadn't been bugs reported, so we started attempting to stabilize
> > > 0.11.5 so that we could have a stable newer OpenRC for releng.
> > > 
> > > When we started stabling, more regressions came up, so we had to  fix
> > > those. That is why you are seeing several versions go to stable
> > > directly on some arch's arch's.
> > > 
> > > wrt 0.11.7, a couple of developers looked over the patches with me and
> > > we did not see issues. 0.11.8 will be the very last one of these to go
> > > stable. Please bear with me on this.
> > 
> > Ok, this is the last update. 0.11.8 fixes the issue in 0.11.7, so you
> > should not see any more quick pushes to stable. I take full
> > responsibility for the issue in 0.11.7, and will work with the OpenRC
> > team and QA to catch issues like this better in the future. Thanks for
> > your patience.
> > 
> > William
> 
> Still with 0.11.7 until 0.11.8 reaches the mirrors and noticed a long list of, 
> e.g.:
> 
> rm: cannot remove '/lib/rc/init.d/softscripts/consolefont': Read-only file 
> system
> 
> with the init.d services.  These messages show up straight after:
> 
> * /run/lock: creating directory
> * /run/lock: correcting owner

Yes, these should be gone with 0.11.8.

Thanks,

William


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