Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC available for testing.

[Roy Marples]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:38 -0800, Nathan Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:41:00 +0000
> Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name> wrote:
>
> > Hi List
> >
> > 2008 is here and it's time for some change!
> >
> > OpenRC is now ready for testing. There are no ebuilds in the tree, but
> > some are available here [1] that offers a baselayout-2 shell that
> > pulls in openrc-9999. I'll just offer a git ebuild for the time
> > being, so bugs can be fixed fast without having to bump all the time.
> > But it should be fairly smooth going.
>
> I am wondering about the blocker on baselayout < 2.0 in your git
> overlay ebuild for baselayout-2.  Is there some reason that the upgrade
> path from baselayout-1 to -2 will not work for openrc?

File ownership of a few things changed from baselayout -> openrc. Enough
so that openrc is a self enclosed product, but relies on system files
that baselayout supplies.

A blocker is the only way I know of doing this so portage doesn't
complain about overwriting files owned by another package.

Thanks

Roy

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