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This is just a heads up for getting baselayout-2 stable. Next week I |
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plan to put baselayout-2.0.0_rc1 into the tree without any keywords and |
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it will be removed from package.mask (keeping the current alphas masked |
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though). Arch teams will then be pinged on a bug to keyword |
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baselayout-2. |
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Now there are, as usual, some daemons and init scripts that probably |
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won't work. For those that don't, I have either fixed or there's patches |
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in our bugzilla. Here's a rough summary. |
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Regarding init scripts. |
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Init scripts should now be strictly bourne or POSIX shell. ie, no |
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bashisms. bash init scripts will work, but ONLY if /bin/sh is bash. |
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Shells as /bin/sh that I've tested and found to be working are |
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bash |
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dash |
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busybox |
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zsh |
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FreeBSD sh |
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Also, as there's no bashisms, that also means no bash arrays. This |
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includes our net config. |
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config_eth0=( "1.2.3.4/24" "5.6.7.8 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) |
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becomes |
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config_eth0="'1.2.3.4/24' '5.6.7.8 netmask 255.255.255.0'" |
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Pay attention to the quoting there. |
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We still support bash arrays if and only if /bin/sh is really bash, so |
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your existing net config should work as is. |
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Regarding start-stop-daemon. It will now test to see if the daemon is |
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running after it returns as some daemons love to fork and then error on |
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a bad config. So we trap this. However, there are also some false |
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positives where there is a big gap between forking and writing the |
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pidfile. Examples of this are ntpd (patch in portage) and nscd (part of |
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glibc). |
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Also, when running in parallel, we now prefix all output. This looks |
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very pretty on screen and is almost perfect. However, this also comes at |
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a cost - daemons are now expected to close stdin, stdout and stderr |
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after forking like all well written daemons should. Some don't - like |
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gpm (latest rev is patched) and noip (patch in bugs). If they don't, |
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then it will hang rc. Sadly, there isn't much I can do about this. |
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Lastly, reiserfs3 and jfs users should comment on bug #116016 to ensure |
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that my proposed patches to the userland tools actually work as I don't |
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use those fs's much aside from basic testing. |
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Well, that's about it. It's been a fun journey making baselayout-2 and |
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we're almost at the end of this road :) |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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PS - Now is a very good time to test it if you're concerned about it |
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running on your obscure arch or use some funky networking foo. |
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