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On 3 January 2012 15:21, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote |
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>> I see three options: |
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>> 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who |
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>> has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs |
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>> of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for |
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>> gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we |
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>> migrate everything, nothing else would work. |
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>> 2) Combine the sbin and bin directories both on the root |
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>> filesystem and in /usr by moving things from /sbin to /bin and /usr/sbin |
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>> to /usr/bin. |
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>> 3) Try to maintain things the way they are as long as possible. |
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> 4) Following pointers from Zac Medico and others, I've managed to get |
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> Gentoo running with busybox's mdev, instead of udev. See |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5f0.xml |
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> Executive summary... look Ma; no udev! |
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Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The |
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Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep |
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through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that |
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it might. |
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Arun Raghavan |
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http://arunraghavan.net/ |
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(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) |
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