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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on openrc
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:37:26
Message-Id: 11981054.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on openrc by Rich Freeman
1 On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:54:50 -00 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:03 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
3 wrote:
4 > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 12:13:06 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 > >
6 > > --->8
7 > >
8 > > > It looks like this is cause my using mixed keywords, amd64 for udev and
9 > > > ~amd64 for systemd-boot/utils. Does keywording udev-250 resolve the
10 > > > blocks?
11 > >
12 > > Yes, after keywording several others, thus:
13 > >
14 > > ~sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles-249.9
15 > > ~sys-apps/systemd-utils-250.4
16 > > ~sys-fs/udev-250
17 > > ~virtual/tmpfiles-0-r2
18 > >
19 > > But then, after rebooting because of the udev update, systemd-boot-250-r1
20 > > has come in. I can't revert those keywords though, because then I'd have
21 > > to ditch elogind in favour of systemd. I really do not want to do that.
22 >
23 > Can't you just fix your USE flags with systemd-utils? Why revert?
24
25 No, because the flag I'd need is 'boot', and that triggers switching from
26 elogind to systemd.
27
28 > If I need to bump a package up to ~arch temporarily usually I just do
29 > it with an atom like "<sys-apps/systemd-utils-251" or something like
30 > that, so that I keep getting ~arch updates within the major version,
31 > but the next major bump happens when it hits stable. Obviously you
32 > need to understand the versioning/stabilization policies for the
33 > packages involved if you do that, and it is situational, but you
34 > really shouldn't be mixing keywords anyway unless you're comfortable
35 > with that.
36
37 No, I know it's a bad idea to mix keywords, but how else do I get systemd-boot
38 on a stable system?
39
40 --
41 Regards,
42 Peter.

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[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on openrc Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>