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Am Sat, 23 May 2015 10:41:03 +0000 (UTC) |
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schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>: |
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> Marc Joliet posted on Sat, 23 May 2015 10:49:07 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> > Am Thu, 21 May 2015 09:36:28 +0000 (UTC) |
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> > schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>: |
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> > |
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> > [...] |
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> >> I decided to keep systemd, and ultimately, to unmerge openrc |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > I forgot to ask about this: how did you go about doing that? I'm still |
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> > waiting for the following two bugs to be resolved: |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504116 |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511500 |
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> > |
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> > Do you have none of the affected packages installed, or...? |
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> Good question! |
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> Answer: "or..." Very definitely "or...", as you will see below. =:^) |
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> functions.sh is easy enough to fix, if you're willing to create a single |
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> symlink, manually. |
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> $ equery belongs functions.sh |
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> sys-apps/gentoo-functions-0.10 (/lib/gentoo/functions.sh) |
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> The package gentoo-functions is /supposed/ to replace a couple gentoo- |
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> specific files formerly found in openrc, thereby making openrc optional |
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> for those using other init systems (like systemd). One of those files is |
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> functions.sh[1]. |
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> But the old /etc/init.d/functions.sh location was hardcoded into a lot of |
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> gentoo utilities over the years, some of which don't get updated very |
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> often especially for stable, and the new /lib/gentoo/functions.sh |
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> location, while more appropriate, still can't be found by some of these |
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> apps. That's what the first bug is about. |
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> Simple enough fix -- ensure the gentoo-functions package is installed (it |
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> should be as it's a dependency of enough stuff, including current glibc |
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> packages!), and do a manual symlink from the old location to the new |
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> one. Viola! No openrc needed for THAT any more, and because the new |
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> location's file is still packaged, any updates to it should occur |
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> normally and will be simply picked up by anything still using the old |
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> location, since it's a symlink! =:^) |
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[...] |
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That is certainly an interesting approach, since it avoids any upgrades. Then |
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I would only have to deal with openrc. |
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[snip empty @system approach] |
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Wow, that's certainly an interesting approach! It's definitely not for me, |
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though. While I appreciate the control Gentoo gives me, I don't need *that* |
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kind of control. |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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-- |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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