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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 05:48:33
Message-Id: 201105110647.44773.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone? by Jim Burwell
1 On Wednesday 11 May 2011 03:07:32 Jim Burwell wrote:
2 > On 5/10/2011 18:25, Indi wrote:
3 > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:20:02AM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote:
4 > >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >>> Hi folks,
6 > >>>
7 > >>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that
8 > >>> have done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there
9 > >>> issues? I'm mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I
10 > >>> have. Just a simple works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice.
11 > >>> List issues if you had any.
12 > >>
13 > >> I'm using ~amd64 and upgraded long, long, long ago. No problems at all
14 > >> during or after the upgrade. I would expect it to be even smoother
15 > >> process now than it was then.
16 > >>
17 > >> IIRC the biggest deal with the baselayout/openrc upgrade was that you
18 > >> must update a bunch of config files, which are not necessarily all
19 > >> blind/trivial updates. Failing to update them could make rebooting a
20 > >> sad experience.
21 > >
22 > > Same here, on x86 and ppc. Most of it was handled automatically and
23 > > the rest via dispatch-conf. Works just fine.
24 >
25 > Went pretty smoothly for me following the upgrade guide. I have a
26 > gentoo based iptables firewall with a fairly complicated network setup
27 > with postup() functions. I made the mistake of taking out the BASH
28 > syntax (the surrounding parens, etc) on my postup() function based on
29 > the guide, wondering if it'd work or not, and sure enough it wanted the
30 > old BASH style syntax for those functions, but the new style (w/o
31 > parens, and quoted blocks with CRs) on the "normal" sections.
32 >
33 > They should probably make a note of this in the config guide.
34 >
35 > It's good to see they added in support for iproute2 rules natively
36 > instead of requiring a postup() function. I'd like to see them add a
37 > similar functionality for adding static ARP entries too (right now using
38 > my own postup() for that).
39
40 Jim, it's a good idea to post a bug so that they can change the documentation.
41
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Mick

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