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From: Christian Bricart <christian@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:31:35
Message-Id: 4B1843D8.5090205@bricart.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo by Joshua Saddler
1 Joshua Saddler schrieb:
2 > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:44:47 +0000
3 > Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> Hi everyone, I think that the best should be to release a migration guide
5 >> just before the official release and also a news on the first page of
6 >> Gentoo.org
7 >
8 > You really should have checked our doc repo before sending your mail:
9 >
10 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
11 >
12 > I, Cardoe, and Uberlord wrote it back in April 2008[1].
13 >
14 > [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
15
16 mentioning possible migration issues and pointing at the docs above:
17
18 (AFAIK the only) documentation handling networking migration states:
19
20 +--
21 | ...
22 | Also, /etc/conf.d/net no longer uses bash-style arrays for
23 | configuration.
24 | Please review /usr/share/doc/openrc-<version>/net.example
25 | for configuration instructions. Conversion should be relatively
26 | straight-forward, for example a static IP assignment would change
27 | as follows:
28 | ...
29 +--
30 (and no - more complex examples are *not* described
31 in /u/s/d/o/net.example as stated..)
32
33 Apart from that, the newnet file will be /etc/conf.d/network ..
34
35 Regarding USE=-oldnet migrations, that are actually *using* oldnet Bash
36 arrays within /etc/conf.d/net (like me) are left alone and not even
37 Funtoo has a porting guide..
38
39 my $0.02
40 Christian

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RE: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com>