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Hi; just to let you guys know that my overlay for having a |
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systemd-only Gentoo machine (no OpenRC, no baselayout, no sysvinit), |
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it's available, sync'ed with the portage tree of March 11 (it took me |
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a few days to update all my machines and to check everything was |
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working OK). |
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You can grab the overlay directly with: |
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git clone git://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only.git |
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and the instructions (as usual) are in |
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http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/gentoo-systemd-only/ |
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With the re-introduction of virtual/modutils everything got easier, |
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and now the major problem (IMHO) is bug 373219: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219 |
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Basically, several scripts on the tree source |
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/etc/init.d/functions.sh, *without* explicitly depending on |
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sys-apps/openrc. Since I'm actually running my machines without |
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/etc/init.d (nor /etc/conf.d, nor /etc/runleves, etc.), this resulted |
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in some surprises when some ebuilds called scripts that no longer |
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worked because /etc/init.d/functions.sh was no longer there. |
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The overlay provides a package (sys-libs/elib-functions) with a tiny |
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script that has the same functionality (as far as I have tested) of |
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/etc/init.d/functions.sh, and alternatives to the scripts on the tree |
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that source it, which are (currently): |
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* app-admin/perl-cleaner |
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* app-admin/python-updater |
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* app-portage/gentoolkit |
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* dev-java/java-config-wrapper |
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* sys-devel/binutils-config |
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* sys-devel/gcc-config |
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sys-devel/gcc and sys-libs/glibc also use scripts sourcing |
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/etc/init.d/functions.sh; I prefer not to mess with such critical |
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packages on the system, so instead I provide the patched scripts |
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(fix_libtool_files.sh and locale-gen) so you can replace them by hand. |
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Apart from that, the packages on the overlay seem to be working great, |
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and the changes are rather minimal. If you are interested in testing a |
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Gentoo system with the latest technologies, or have fun risking your |
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machines to break in new and funny ways, you are more than welcome to |
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try the overlay. |
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Oh, and just to be clear, since the overlay is testing the really |
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bleeding edge of new technologies, setups with a separate /usr |
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partition that refuse to use an initramfs are obviously not supported, |
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and they will never be (see |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/75724). |
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If you use an initramfs to mount a separate /usr, or have /usr in the |
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same partition as /, everything *should* work (doesn't mean it *would* |
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work, but it *should*). |
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Disclaimer: it *is* rather possible that you will break your system in |
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new and funny ways if you try the overlay, specially if you don't know |
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what you are doing. I take no responsibility of any harm you or your |
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computer may suffer by using it. You have been warned. |
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Regars |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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