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Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and |
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it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point. Right |
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now, we are getting really close to the point where we will be able to |
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uninstall sys-apps/openrc, sys-apps/sysvinit and sys-apps/baselayout, |
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and run a systemd-only Gentoo system. |
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I wanted to try to do exactly that, using a custom overlay, and it |
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turns out it's not that difficult: almost all the pieces are already |
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in the portage tree, and most of the ones missing are being tracked |
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right now in the Gentoo bugzilla. So after creating my overlay and |
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testing it on all my machines, I wanted to share the experience with |
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others. |
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Please note that this is as experimental as it can get, and certainly |
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not for the faint of heart. You will be running the latest versions of |
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the kernel, systemd, udev and probably dracut, and you will be saying |
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goodbye to (up until now) core components of Gentoo: baselayout and |
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openrc. If you follow all of the steps, you will not even have |
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/etc/init.d and /etc/conf.d directories. |
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If you already run systemd, the steps are not that difficult; if you |
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are not running systemd, I *strongly* recommend first to install it |
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and try it before attempting to use this overlay. |
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The overlay lives in |
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https://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only and you can get it |
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with |
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git clone git://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only.git |
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There is a README on it with step by step instructions, that you can |
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also read in this page: |
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http://xochitl.matem.unam.mx/~canek/gentoo-systemd-only/index.html |
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The normal warnings apply: I do not take any responsibility for any |
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harm your system may suffer, and it is intended for Gentoo users that |
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know what they are doing. If something breaks, you get to keep the |
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pieces. |
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If you do try it and find any problems with the overlay, please let me |
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know and I will try to fix them (and please don't bother the Gentoo |
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devs with said problems: they know nothing of this overlay, and I'm |
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doing this all by my own). I also will try to keep the overlay sync'ed |
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with the portage tree. |
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Regards. |
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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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