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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 01:47:53
Message-Id: m3ziboui7x.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd? by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:13:24 -0400,
2 Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:04 PM, John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:00:50 -0400,
6 > > Rich Freeman wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
9 > >> > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check
10 > >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest
11 > >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I
12 > >> > have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I
13 > >> > have found dracut very nice and would be sad to give it up.
14 > >> >
15 > >> > Any ideas on what is happening here?
16 > >>
17 > >> I'm not running 045 but it looks to me that systemd is just supported
18 > >> automatically if it is installed. The USE flag was removed, but
19 > >> support was not.
20 > >
21 > > OK, thanks a lot, I wish they would have news items for such things,
22 > > or at least a changelog which seems to be missing in that directory.
23 > >
24 >
25 > I have no idea why you don't have a changelog - those are
26 > system-generated from the git logs and maintainers have nothing to do
27 > with them.
28 >
29 > The relevant commit message seems to be:
30 > commit 90bb5611b5aa9279ff3b0d4f5c25240bf4b0f9db
31 > Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
32 > Date: Sun Jul 2 19:06:08 2017 -0400
33 >
34 > sys-kernel/dracut: bump to 045
35 >
36 > - Clean up ebuild code in general
37 > - Remove unnecessary version setting
38 > - Simplify gentoo.conf config file
39 > - Depend on >=sys-apps/kmod-15 for libkmod
40 > - Stop removing systemd and other modules
41 > - Drop systemd USE flag
42 > - Depend on sys-apps/coreutils[xattr] (bug 613516)
43 >
44 > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/615898
45 > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/613516
46 > Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p9, Repoman-2.3.2_p77
47 >
48 > :100644 100644 6525882cc17... 04a511a44f1... M sys-kernel/dracut/Manifest
49 > :000000 100644 00000000000... 86fddcc57bb... A
50 > sys-kernel/dracut/dracut-045.ebuild
51 >
52
53 I wonder if its because I am still using rsync to sync the portage
54 directory? There are no changelogs anywhere! or nothing by that name.
55
56 --
57 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
58 How do
59 you spend it?
60
61 John Covici
62 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd? Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>