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On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:25:17 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> The number of people who would lose their systems by this mechanism is |
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> likely very small, but that loss would probably involve a |
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> re-installation. I mean all a victim has to go on is the fact that his |
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> machine won't boot, combined with a memory of having run emerge |
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> --depclean the night before. |
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So boot into busybox or a rescue disk, look in emerge.log to see what |
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changed and undo it. I think a "Can't find init" message would be fairly |
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easy to understand. |
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> > It seems that Rich's suggestion has the most merit, add a USE flag to |
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> > daemontools to indicate that it is intended to be your service |
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> > manager, and have the virtual require that flag. Yes, it would |
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> > require a one-off rebuild of daemontools for everyone with it |
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> > installed, but the potential for breakage would be removed. |
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> Another idea I had today is to have two packages, daemontools and |
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> daemontools-init, which would be identical, apart from the fact that |
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> only the second of these would satisfy virtual/service-manager. |
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See below. |
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> I can't help feeling that maybe portage has become too complicated. |
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See above. |
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Actually, this has little to do with portage, which s doing exactly what |
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you told it to do - remove all unnecessary/unwanted packages. The problem |
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is in your configuration that tells portage that openrc is not needed. If |
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you want a simple, clean and reasonably permanent solution that doesn't |
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involve putting openrc in @world, copy the virtual to your local overlay |
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and remove the daemontools dependency. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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