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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:36:09
Message-Id: 47E81EC6.4020002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote:
3 >
4 >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Doug Goldstein wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> All,
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> This is a formal notice to everyone that OpenRC will be hitting the
13 >>>>> Gentoo tree sooner rather then later. I would like to see *ALL* arch
14 >>>>> teams give the current code a whirl on their systems, which is
15 >>>>> available via the layman module "openrc".
16 >>>>>
17 >>>>> I would also like to give the docs team a chance to weigh in here and
18 >>>>> work with me on a migration guide as well as any necessary updates.
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> That being said, I will be the primary point of contact on the
21 >>>>> transition to OpenRC appearing in ~arch (along with it's associated
22 >>>>> baselayout-2.0.0 ebuild). Any and all grievances, concerns,
23 >>>>> suggestions and comments can and should be routed to me via the
24 >>>>> associated Bugzilla entries or e-mail.
25 >>>>>
26 >>>>> I do not want OpenRC to come as a surprise to anyone and break their
27 >>>>> system. I expect we will leave no stone unturned and go for a very
28 >>>>> smooth transition.
29 >>>>>
30 >>>>> That being said, the bug for the addition of OpenRC is #212696 [1].
31 >>>>> The bug for the documentation is #213988 [2].
32 >>>>>
33 >>>>> Lastly, I will be out of town March 21st through March 23rd. I will
34 >>>>> not have IRC access but I will have e-mail and Bugzilla access.
35 >>>>>
36 >>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212696
37 >>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213988
38 >>>>>
39 >>>> It appears my migration plan was not good enough for Mike Frysinger
40 >>>> <vapier@g.o> and he went ahead and wrote his own version of the
41 >>>> OpenRC ebuild, differing from the one in the OpenRC layman repo, and
42 >>>> committed it to the tree this weekend.
43 >>>>
44 >>>> Since my offer to work on the migration was not good enough for him, I'm
45 >>>> backing out and allowing him to handle the whole migration himself since
46 >>>> I haven't heard from him at all despite Roy (author of OpenRC) and my
47 >>>> attempts to contact him for 2 weeks regarding a migration plan for
48 >>>> OpenRC. All issues and comments can be directed to him.
49 >>>>
50 >>>> I guess working together and documenting everything before having it hit
51 >>>> the tree was a bad plan and it had to be one-upped.
52 >>>>
53 >>> not sure why you're getting pissy. but let's put some things straight
54 >>> shall we.
55 >>>
56 >>> - the ebuild in question was from the layman repo. i changed things of
57 >>> course because it didnt cover all upgrade pieces, had obvious style
58 >>> problems, and did some things wrongly.
59 >>>
60 >> You mean it wasn't bash style and instead was functional POSIX shell
61 >> style.
62 >>
63 >
64 > that wasnt what i was referring to, but converting to the tree standard only
65 > makes sense for something going into the tree.
66 >
67 >
68 >> And by all upgrade paths would that include adding the bad
69 >> conversion of /etc/modules.autoload.d/
70 >>
71 >
72 > looks/tested correct to me
73 >
74 breaks for anything with a module parameter
75 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>