Re: [gentoo-dev] News item draft for >=sys-fs/udev-209 upgrade

[Mike Gilbert]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 12:17 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
>>> On 24/02/14 10:55 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Thomas D. <whissi@××××××.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> not everyone is using systemd. On my systems for example, I don't
>>>>> have "/lib/systemd/" (INSTALL_MASK).
>>>>>
>>>>> The current news item draft raises question like "When the
>>>>> 'actual configuration' is in
>>>>> /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link... what will happen to
>>>>> people without systemd (and a INSTALL_MASK set)?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Would be nice if the news item and Wiki could handle upgrade path
>>>>> for systemd *and* non-systemd users...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You need to remove /lib/systemd/ from INSTALL_MASK. If you don't
>>>> want unit files, mask /lib/systemd/system/ instead.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ..it'd be worth adding this little tidbit to the news item, probably...
>>>
>>
>> Yeah. I poked around on the wiki a bit to try and find any reference
>> to INSTALL_MASK and systemd, but didn't find anything.
>
> Minor note, also not using systemd (or udev, for that matter), but out of
> curiosity, I checked my x86_64 system and I don't have a /lib/systemd
> directory.  Looks like everything is in /usr/lib/systemd instead.  So, this
> might be a good item to document somewhere (possibly the wiki), so people
> aren't confused and add the wrong directories to INSTALL_MASK (or other
> relevant variables)
>

I really just meant to correct any existing documentation which may exist.

Adding both /lib/systemd/systemd and /usr/lib/systemd/system should be
fairly safe.