Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

[Alan McKinnon]

On 22/12/2015 00:37, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 21 Dec 2015 21:43:00 Kai Krakow wrote:
>> Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:25:34 -0500
>>
>> schrieb waltdnes@××××××××.org:
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:06:25PM +0000, James wrote
>>>
>>>> From what I read/understand openrc is in the process of removal from
>>>> @system, for all profiles?
>>>>
>>>   In Lennart's dreams... and many peoples' nightmares.
>>
>> Haters gonna hate...
>>
>> If I look at the virtual/service-manager ebuild, openrc probably in
>> the process of being removed from the system set and replaced by this
>> virtual. In that way you can more easily replace openrc with a service
>> manager of your choice.
>>
>> The upgrade path will be straight forward: It doesn't affect your openrc
>> installation at all because through the service-manager deps openrc is
>> still pulled into the system set - simply by the fact that it is
>> installed.
>
> Nevertheless, virtual options to make it easier to use alternatives to the
> current stable version of openrc are not my problem at this stage.  I can't
> get ifplugd to work, unless I start up net.<iface> first and I am getting no
> /var/log/rc.log to see what's gone sideways.  Regardless of these problems I
> am getting warnings on the console during boot time as posted initially.
>
> Am I alone in experiencing this?  Any ideas for fixing it?  Should I post a
> bug and if so where?  I'm thinking that asking Lennart to fix ifplugd so that
> it works with openrc would be taking it a step too far.  :p
>



read the news items for the last 3 months or so.

openrc changes, networking and service dependencies have changed
somewhat, all well documented in the news items

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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com