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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:05:09
Message-Id: 200611090000.02072.uberlord@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon by Roy Marples
1 On Monday 06 November 2006 16:53, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir
3 > in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the
4 > running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var
5 > could be on a different partition.
6 >
7 > In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced
8 > to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same
9 > partition as /. The 1.13 ebuild will copy across existing state data, this
10 > is not the problem. However, downgrading back to 1.12 is a problem as
11 > services may have been stop, started etc in the middle.
12 >
13 > One solution is to ensure that we only hold one copy of the state data and
14 > move it to the new location. However, this does require altering the stable
15 > ebuild as well.
16
17 This is still an issue.
18
19 What do people think - hack the 1.12 ebuilds and try and get an
20 upgrade/downgrade path or just slap a large warning on the ebuild?
21
22 You get upgraded for free :)
23
24 --
25 Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
26 Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>