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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:43:22 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Title: Separate /usr on Linux requires initramfs |
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> Author: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2013-09-27 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> In the meeting on 24-Sep-2013, the Gentoo Council agreed that all |
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> preparations for dropping support for Linux systems with /usr on a |
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> separate file system that do not use an initramfs are complete. |
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This sentence feels long and yields multiple questions for the user: |
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1) Where can I read more about this meeting? What is the Gentoo Council? |
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2) What are these preparations? Does the user need to know about them? |
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3) Why is support being dropped? Why was it a problem? |
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Since some of these are not really important to start the news with; I |
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would suggest to start the mail about the drop in support and give some |
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reference to another article/mail describing the problem after that. |
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So, something along the lines of: |
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Linux systems with /usr on a separate file system that do not use |
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an initramfs will become unsupported, starting on 01-Nov-2013. |
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Then go on like: |
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This decision has been taken because of [problem]; you can read |
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more about that in [article/mail references]." |
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We could probably leave out the meeting and preparations; remember that |
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the mail is focused towards the user, so should focus on why the |
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situation changes and how the user can accommodate with that. If it is |
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a necessity to add it, please consider doing it at the end. |
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> Therefore, starting on 01-Nov-2013, we will consider this |
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> configuration to be unsupported. |
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The date has been embedded in my above rewording, avoiding repetition. |
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> This means if you have a separate /usr configuration, it is important |
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> to convert to using an initramfs. If you do not convert and you |
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> upgrade packages on or after 01-Nov-2013, you will, at some point, |
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> find that your system is unbootable. |
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> For more information on creating an initramfs, see the following URL: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs/HOWTO |
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Sounds good; since this is the most important to the user, we might |
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want to restructure this to be mentioned earlier in the news message. |
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Possibly between the two example sentences I gave. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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