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From: Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:13:35
Message-Id: SNT117-W32BF95CACAB2367399D4FED6930@phx.gbl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo by Christian Bricart
1 Hi Christian, the guide back in 2008 and it's ok for the OpenRC stuff, but for the network part.
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3 maybe we could add some examples from this thread : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-796647-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-openrc-start-0.html
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5 my $0.02
6 Sylvain
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10 > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:03:52 +0100
11 > From: christian@×××××××.de
12 > To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
13 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc stabilization todo
14 >
15 > Joshua Saddler schrieb:
16 > > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:44:47 +0000
17 > > Sylvain Alain <d2_racing@×××××××.com> wrote:
18 > >> Hi everyone, I think that the best should be to release a migration guide
19 > >> just before the official release and also a news on the first page of
20 > >> Gentoo.org
21 > >
22 > > You really should have checked our doc repo before sending your mail:
23 > >
24 > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
25 > >
26 > > I, Cardoe, and Uberlord wrote it back in April 2008[1].
27 > >
28 > > [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
29 >
30 > mentioning possible migration issues and pointing at the docs above:
31 >
32 > (AFAIK the only) documentation handling networking migration states:
33 >
34 > +--
35 > | ...
36 > | Also, /etc/conf.d/net no longer uses bash-style arrays for
37 > | configuration.
38 > | Please review /usr/share/doc/openrc-<version>/net.example
39 > | for configuration instructions. Conversion should be relatively
40 > | straight-forward, for example a static IP assignment would change
41 > | as follows:
42 > | ...
43 > +--
44 > (and no - more complex examples are *not* described
45 > in /u/s/d/o/net.example as stated..)
46 >
47 > Apart from that, the newnet file will be /etc/conf.d/network ..
48 >
49 > Regarding USE=-oldnet migrations, that are actually *using* oldnet Bash
50 > arrays within /etc/conf.d/net (like me) are left alone and not even
51 > Funtoo has a porting guide..
52 >
53 > my $0.02
54 > Christian
55 >
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