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On Wednesday 11 May 2011 03:07:32 Jim Burwell wrote: |
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> On 5/10/2011 18:25, Indi wrote: |
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> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:20:02AM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> Hi folks, |
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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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> >> I'm using ~amd64 and upgraded long, long, long ago. No problems at all |
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> >> during or after the upgrade. I would expect it to be even smoother |
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> >> process now than it was then. |
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> >> IIRC the biggest deal with the baselayout/openrc upgrade was that you |
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> >> must update a bunch of config files, which are not necessarily all |
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> >> blind/trivial updates. Failing to update them could make rebooting a |
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> >> sad experience. |
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> > Same here, on x86 and ppc. Most of it was handled automatically and |
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> > the rest via dispatch-conf. Works just fine. |
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> Went pretty smoothly for me following the upgrade guide. I have a |
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> gentoo based iptables firewall with a fairly complicated network setup |
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> with postup() functions. I made the mistake of taking out the BASH |
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> syntax (the surrounding parens, etc) on my postup() function based on |
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> the guide, wondering if it'd work or not, and sure enough it wanted the |
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> old BASH style syntax for those functions, but the new style (w/o |
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> parens, and quoted blocks with CRs) on the "normal" sections. |
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> They should probably make a note of this in the config guide. |
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> It's good to see they added in support for iproute2 rules natively |
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> instead of requiring a postup() function. I'd like to see them add a |
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> similar functionality for adding static ARP entries too (right now using |
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> my own postup() for that). |
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Jim, it's a good idea to post a bug so that they can change the documentation. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |