From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QK8XH-0007lb-SD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 12:29:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 753F21C097; Wed, 11 May 2011 12:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463D91C097 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 12:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so181337yxm.40 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:27:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=UlC7jE1Hh9S+xsZXdKsqaFmDyy+YTEuKUVD8156+UOY=; b=pwsSyFdzppeDSU8YHhw5f47KSJytIuijOithkqQD+HG4DDzsHD88y3LJC8oYGZLz1j xtOd8NIaBxkMyw/YRAYjJLAh3Ej0gz3dD3f5otzvyk4urijy8NyIG/1WDbhN8S9qmJk4 NllThNic+zwQktYJZ4HcewMqpQXYpLBlqjinM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=m276L1t/4UnEJmEFByvmVhBb6tgPk2YOW5t2+vbI4cXFZP2Dhmlm1DRElGqk2vhigb odAoinsrSq9/log9+oSXnRAmVJycjEA1dsAeXI1S1BTjrdgk9Aec3iWAMvvBiqo2bNeo xpVGg0mzcKWYx4sxL4rZctLCBoVDMjPHPkEJ0= Received: by 10.236.190.40 with SMTP id d28mr5324512yhn.62.1305116855702; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-130-19.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.130.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o69sm34278yhm.78.2011.05.11.05.27.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 May 2011 05:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DCA80B4.5000805@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 07:27:32 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110501 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone? References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <20110511111032.GA2562@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20110511111032.GA2562@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3d58b84cb08528a7f6241b02292aa995 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 :-) :-)