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