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On 2010-03-07 1:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:39:05 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> Baselayout2 is still not stable, so, yes, I'm still on baselayout1, |
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>> and now you've gone and made me nervous again. ;) |
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>> Are you suggesting I should already be using it?? |
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> You are going to have to switch sometime, the day will come when |
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> baselayout-2 goes stable. |
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Any idea how far away this might be? Are we talking a year or more? |
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> Seeing as you plan a large update anyway, which will have downtime, |
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> this would be an ideal opportunity. |
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Well, I here you, but I'm of the old school, and for production systems, |
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prefer not to change critical system stuff like this unless/until it |
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goes stable. |
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> However, the update is deep and you will be marking a lot of things |
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> unstable if you do. On a production machine you might not want to do |
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> that. Only you can say if it's a step you are willing to take. On |
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> the plus side, baselayout-1 will still work for a very long time to |
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> come. |
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Ok, good, in that case I'll wait, because we are planning on rolling out |
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a new server sometime in the next year or two, and we'll be installing |
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from scratch. |
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> When the time to change comes around, set aside an hour or two for |
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> the job. It's not a complex change, but many files need to be |
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> updated, there's all sorts of things in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/conf.d |
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> that must be re-organized and you will want to double check all |
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> affected packages. |
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> Like I said, it's not complex, and it won't cause you to meet your |
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> maker. Everything is well documented, but it is lengthy and tedious |
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> and you want to finish it all in one sitting - if for no other reason |
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> than if you come back to it later, you won't remember how far you got |
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> :-) |
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Gotcha... I'm feeling much better now... ;) |
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>> Ok, where is the best place to go to start reading/learning about |
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>> how to prep for it? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml |
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Ok, I'd already found that, so thanks for confirming I'm in the right |
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place. And thanks again for all the helpful comments... :) |
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Charles |
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