Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

[Doug Goldstein]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> /etc/modules.autoload.d has always allowed module parameters to appear
>> after the module name.
>>
>> /etc/conf.d/modules has allowed a completely different syntax requiring
>> variables based on the module name to be set with the module parameters.
>>
>> This is where Roy and I have been stuck as far as an automatic
>> conversion process. The stuff you included in the openrc-9999 ebuild was
>> something I had sent to Roy months ago before I realized module
>> parameters would be an issue. Looking at a swath of various
>> /etc/modules.autoload.d/ files, I haven't come up with shell code that
>> does the right thing everytime with all the files, which is why I've
>> left it up to being a manual process for the user and simply documenting
>> it.
>
> expecting users to read and do it themselves is certainly a path to
> destruction for many.  while i could have written it in shell, i just did it
> in awk.  i hope you're just overstating things when you say months, because
> FIXED:INCVS.
>
> we're going to need to extend the syntax anyways to allow for
> per-version-per-module arguments.  unless openrc does that now ... Roy ?
> -mike

Currently OpenRC does not support per-version-per-module arguments. What 
is your proposed syntax?

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