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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:21:06
Message-Id: CAA2qdGVOusrv+6Grm4BzshOuCMvO6hvpP_RynjNeWFwAsdaDeA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! by "Bruce Hill
1 On Mar 17, 2012 11:15 AM, "Bruce Hill, Jr." <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
2 wrote:
3 >
4 > This item just appeared after eix-sync:
5 >
6 > HTPC ~ # eselect news read
7 > 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
8 > Title udev-181 unmasking
9 > Author William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
10 > Posted 2012-03-16
11 > Revision 1
12 >
13 > udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.
14 >
15 > This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
16 > udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your
17 > system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
18 >
19 > An initramfs which does this is created by
20 > >=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
21 > >=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
22 > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr.
23 >
24 > Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to >= openrc-0.9.9.
25 >
26 > For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL:
27 > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
28 >
29 >
30 >
31 > Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
32 >
33 > Houston, we have a problem!
34 >
35
36 All my servers are now happily running mdev, USE="-udev", and sys-fs/udev
37 in package.mask...
38
39 Houston... we've landed. And it's beautiful here... there's lots of work to
40 do to prepare the colony, but it's a whole new horizon... a new world! ;-)
41
42 Rgds,