From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698161381F3 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7257DE0DF1; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com (mail-ob0-f169.google.com [209.85.214.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7677EE0D9C for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:33:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id wp4so3726898obc.0 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=O0lR/2p28hFgbrG50IPXb17Tom1piaOyWFGmdjFFExM=; b=u0jKPrj6Q90tTCa5P1UE3KwW7bkbWNhF01IIsgjjy16uvCLoPHXbN0Ll3VlXWqbIf4 8FdXo0l4a2HnQcvGOWR02pWSS8t3BrwwumGgWqwbC2mBkayWhQLZkFbHZwSH96KvfDoN tKQxqb79TGb/bJzuFBQ2OMObuWcS/rhk5fjQ+adWRQFXZmFhgjUhPp1IRpblQsQbugUn TonyCuZW7zE/8ptosGe+XgEZj9kRqX7onLj0kTLUt/5moWT1BLLJXN1vsPIa/9Zrt1MG 1L2bQn/ofY+v+G4LnBne60OEbNVf3u1UIWjUpk16FdpX+nmQFrPSSSUhbc+YBLo0bSWJ JzWg== X-Received: by 10.60.68.135 with SMTP id w7mr7962216oet.9.1380321183590; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-149-129.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.149.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bq4sm13675233obb.1.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5246079E.7090406@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:33:02 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21 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] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01 References: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> In-Reply-To: <20130927222109.GD23408@server> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b96bff3f-39ef-44b3-ba72-6f86aea4ad57 X-Archives-Hash: d2f865e49ca7221ee82dbab6e2af37d7 Bruce Hill wrote: > mingdao@workstation ~ $ eselect news read > 2013-09-27-initramfs-required > Title Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs > Author William Hubbs > Posted 2013-09-27 > Revision 1 > > 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. > > For more information on setting up an initramfs, see this URL: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs/HOWTO > > Due to many upstream changes, properly supporting Linux systems that > have /usr missing at boot time has become increasingly difficult. > Despite all our efforts, it already breaks in some exotic > configurations, and this trend is likely to grow worse. > > For more information on the upstream changes and why using an initramfs > is the cleanest route forward, see the following URLs: > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/the-boot-process > I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have to worry about this. If I do, this could get interesting, again. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!