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On Wednesday 11 May 2011 07:27:32 Dale wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, Dale. |
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> > |
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> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:55:01PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >> Hi folks, |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that |
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> >> have done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there |
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> >> issues? I'm mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I |
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> >> have. Just a simple works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice. |
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> >> List issues if you had any. |
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> > |
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> > For me, it just worked. But it took me well over two hours, and that |
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> > was |
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> > after spending several hours studying the FM (practically memorising it, |
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> > actually). Things which threaten to make my PC unbootable have that |
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> > effect on me. |
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> > |
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> > I was surprised by the number of config files which had changed (though |
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> > I was surprised not to see inittab amongst them). I had a few problems |
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> > with consolefont and keymaps, but that probably had to do with my |
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> > converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 the day before. |
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> > |
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> > I take my hat off to Christian Faulhammer and William Hubbs, true |
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> > gentlemen, who took so much trouble to make a difficult transition so |
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> > smooth and easy. |
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> > |
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> >> Thanks for the feedback. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> Dale |
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> >> |
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> >> :-) :-) |
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> After reading some replies here, I did mine. It went well. I agree, |
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> hats off to the folks who worked on this. Seems like their work paid |
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> off very well. I just hope everyone else's is as easy as mine. |
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> There was a LOT of config files to update. It appears that a LOT of it |
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> was done during the update tho. |
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> I'm just glad this is done. Sort of been dreading this. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I actually did mine before noticing this thread and didn't actually pay much |
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attention to it all. |
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Not had any issues and didn't need to spend much time in fixing anything. The |
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only problem I had was that "/etc/init.d/eth0" had dissapeared. |
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That was easily fixed. |
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