Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:27:55
Message-Id: jk1apk$b2o$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! by "Bruce Hill
1 On 17/03/12 06:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
2 > This item just appeared after eix-sync:
3 >
4 > HTPC ~ # eselect news read
5 > 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
6 > Title udev-181 unmasking
7 > Author William Hubbs<williamh@g.o>
8 > Posted 2012-03-16
9 > Revision 1
10 >
11 > udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.
12 >
13 > This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
14 > udev>=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your
15 > system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
16 >
17 > An initramfs which does this is created by
18 >> =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
19 >> =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
20 > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr.
21 >
22 > Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to>= openrc-0.9.9.
23 >
24 > For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL:
25 > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 > Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
30 >
31 > Houston, we have a problem!
32
33 No, we don't. I hope systemd arrives soon. It's the best init system I
34 ever saw.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ] Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>