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Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Thursday 20 March 2008 06:59:24 Josh Saddler wrote: |
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>> I'll be working on the migration guide with Cardoe (and possibly Roy, if |
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>> we can tag-team him into submission). As much of a pain as migration |
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>> will be, we'll definitely need a howto. Fun, fun. |
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> I already provide documentation with commands in example config files and man |
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> pages that cover nearly every aspect on OpenRC and all it's commands. |
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> The nice thing about not being a Gentoo dev means I don't feel the urge to |
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> write a migration how to. However, here's a really good primer. |
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> 1) Install OpenRC |
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> 2) Review all updated files in /etc/conf.d/ and /etc/rc.conf [1] [2] |
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> 3) If using a "volume" such as LVM, you'll find an appropriate init script |
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> in /etc/init.d that you need to add to the boot runlevel. |
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> 4) Carry on as normal [3] |
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> Thanks |
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> Roy |
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> [1] The case of variable names has been changed from UPPER to lower. This is |
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> for a few reasons (removes confusion vs environment vars, looks nicer). |
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> However, *existing* UPPER case vars should still work. |
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> [2] Paludis users will need to ensure that the init scripts checkfs and |
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> checkroot are removed. I don't care whose "bug" this is, but neither side |
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> wants to fix it. |
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> [3] A reboot is currently needed as for some reason state data isn't migrated |
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> from baselayout-1. This is probably due to OpenRC being split from baselayout |
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> and the code is pretty much the same here. Maybe some plucky Gentoo ebuild |
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> dev can step up and fix it. |
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You missed the whole /etc/modules.autoload.d/* -> /etc/conf.d/modules |
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but I already discussed that with Josh for the guide. ;) |
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