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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for the "systemd rootprefix migration"
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	(Mike Gilbert's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:39:24 -0500")
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On Wed, Feb 07 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:28 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> I run a stable system using gnome3 and hence systemd, specifically
>> systemd-236-r5.  My bootloader is grub2.  I do *not* have an EFI
>> platform and do *not* have an initramfs.
>> I do *not* have a separate /usr filesystem.
>>
>> The news item says that, in preparation for the 237 release and the
>> likely removal of the symlinks
>>    /usr/lib/systemd/systemd and
>>    /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown
>> we should update our boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system
>>
>> 1.  Updating the boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system seems
>> to mean a 1-line change in /etc/default/grub
>>   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" -->
>>   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/lib/systemd/systemd"
>> followed by the usual
>>    grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>> Is that it?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 2.  What should I be doing to prepare for the removal of the
>> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown symlink?
>
> You don't need to do anything specific here.
>
>> 3.  "After upgrading, please run systemctl daemon-reexec".  Which
>> upgrade is being referred to?  Is it the upgrade to the 237 release,
>> with the likely removal of the two symlinks.
>
> You should run that command after any systemd upgrade, but
> specifically after upgrading from a version prior to 234.

Thank you.
allan gottlieb