On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Alex Xu wrote: > On 07/04/13 04:13 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: > > On 2013.04.07 20:36, William Hubbs wrote: > > If you do not upgrade your systems to openrc-0.11.8 before it leaves > > the tree, you may need to reinstall them. > > </quote> > > > > I think you mean > > > > If you do not upgrade your systems to baselayout-2 and openrc-0.11.8 > > before openrc-0.11.8 leaves the tree, you may need to reinstall them. > > > > The problem is with baselayout-1 and that's what needs to be updated. > > The "you may need to reinstall them" is a bit over the top. You can > > always pick up the pieces with a liveCD.
That's why I said "may". I haven't attempted that migration manually, so
I don't know how easy or difficult it would be. You may be able to do
that, but you will be basically on your own to figure it out.
> > Do you need to point out that the old (" ... ") syntax will no longer
> > be supported, or do you intend to tolerate the baselayout-1 syntax in
> > /etc/conf.d/net and friends a while longer.
>
> Notably, NetworkManager generates old-style net files.
This issue with the conf.d/net syntax is a separate one and will be
handled later.
> >
> > A friendly link to the update guide
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
> > may be in order too.
This is already there.
> > I've seen many users on baselayout-2 with baselayout-1 net files. This
> > news item will bypass them.
That is ok, I am just talking about the automatic support for the
Migration.
William
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