Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

[Mick]

On Monday 02 May 2011 10:43:59 Mick wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2011 10:03:11 Thanasis wrote:
> > I am running default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib profile, and I got the
> > following news item, after syncing this morning:
> >
> > # eselect news read
> >
> > 2011-05-01-baselayout-update
> >
> >   Title                     Baselayout update
> >   Author                    Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
> >   Author                    William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
> >   Posted                    2011-05-01
> >   Revision                  1
> >
> > The baselayout package provides files which all systems must have in
> > order to function properly. You are currently using version 1.x, which
> > has several issues. The most significant of these is that the included
> > init scripts are written entirely in bash, which makes them slow and
> > not very flexible.
> >
> > On 2011/05/08, you will see an update for sys-apps/baselayout to
> > 2.x and a new package, sys-apps/openrc. It is recommended that you
> > perform this update as soon as possible.
> >
> > Please note, after these packages are emerged, it is
> > __Absolutely_Critical__ that you immediately update your configuration
> > files with dispatch-conf, etc-update or a similar tool then follow the
> > steps in the migration guide located at the following URL.
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
> >
> > FAILURE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THESE STEPS WILL RESULT IN AN UNBOOTABLE
> > SYSTEM! IF THIS SHOULD HAPPEN, YOU WILL NEED TO BOOT FROM A LIVE CD OR
> > DVD, MOUNT YOUR ROOT FILE SYSTEM, CHROOT INTO THAT ENVIRONMENT AND
> > FOLLOW THE ABOVE STEPS!
>
> I've been through the migration guide.  In the section about udev it
> mentions /etc/runlevels/sysinit.  Is this something added by
> baselayout2/OpenRC?  I don't seem to have this in my runlevels:
>
> $ ls -l /etc/runlevels/
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 20:39 boot
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun  8  2010 default
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21  2010 nonetwork
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21  2010 single

Another thing I found, is some incongruity about the file in which the $EDITOR 
and $PAGER should be defined.

The migration guide says:

"The EDITOR variable is no longer found in /etc/rc.conf. Both EDITOR and PAGER 
are set by default in /etc/profile. You should change this as needed in your 
~/.bashrc (or equivalent) file or create */etc/env.d/99editor* and set the 
system default there."

On the other hand the /etc/profile file seems to recommend /etc/profile.d/

"# You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
# settings.  For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}
export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less}"

Which one is the authoritative place to define a system wide editor?
-- 
Regards,
Mick