[gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

[Roy Marples]

Hi List!

This is a heads up to say that I'm going to be putting baselayout-1.13 into 
~ARCH soon as all the exciting new features I wanted are in - FreeBSD and 
vserver support, buffered and wrapped einfo/ewarn/eerror output, rc-depend 
for lightning fast dependency sorting, no more critical services, no more net 
service specific code.

So if you're concerned about any of the above features breaking your precious 
Gentoo, now is a very good time to test :)

However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir 
in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the 
running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var 
could be on a different partition.

In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced 
to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same 
partition as /. The 1.13 ebuild will copy across existing state data, this is 
not the problem. However, downgrading back to 1.12 is a problem as services 
may have been stop, started etc in the middle.

One solution is to ensure that we only hold one copy of the state data and 
move it to the new location. However, this does require altering the stable 
ebuild as well.

Or we could just slap a very large warning on it.

Ideas are welcome :)

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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking)
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