Hi List! This is a heads up to say that I'm going to be putting baselayout-1.13 into ~ARCH soon as all the exciting new features I wanted are in - FreeBSD and vserver support, buffered and wrapped einfo/ewarn/eerror output, rc-depend for lightning fast dependency sorting, no more critical services, no more net service specific code.
So if you're concerned about any of the above features breaking your precious Gentoo, now is a very good time to test :) However, one issue is a concern. All baselayouts defined svcdir in /etc/conf.d/rc which defines where we hold the state information of the running services. This defaulted to /var/lib/init.d - which is bad as /var could be on a different partition. In 1.13, we've removed the variable from /etc/conf.d/rc and it's now forced to /lib/rcscripts/init.d which is safe as /lib is always on the same partition as /. The 1.13 ebuild will copy across existing state data, this is not the problem. However, downgrading back to 1.12 is a problem as services may have been stop, started etc in the middle. One solution is to ensure that we only hold one copy of the state data and move it to the new location. However, this does require altering the stable ebuild as well. Or we could just slap a very large warning on it. Ideas are welcome :) -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux/FreeBSD Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
