Am 07.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > The tricky one is going to be that persistent interface names from udev > 18 months or so back. When you get to that, you'll probably want to > re-read the huge threads from that time, as you only get one chance to > get it right.
One addition: at the reboot time a fellow IT-guy will be there in front of the console so if the NIC doesn't come up correctly I will be able to instruct him to get the box up and reachable for me. I also use to disable persistent names for such updates ... and get good old eth0 UP instead of enpXsY unconfigured ;-) > I see in your reply to Neil you have glibc conflicts. I don't know what > will happen if you do it with --nodeps, but I wouldn't try that. The box > is remote, if something goes wrong... Rather go with Tomas' suggestion > of yearly portage snapshots and update in stages. skip that ... I leave glibc for now and focus on udev and openrc, see below. > openrc should be seamless. I forget the exact timelines, but IIRC you > will also hit baselayout-2 migration. That one was very smooth and well > documented so you shouldn't have much trouble. openrc needs an updated udev and I am currently working on getting at least sys-fs/udev-208-r1 installed now (conflicts with lvm2 and stuff ...) Some circular dep between udev and udev-init-scripts blocks things ... I fiddled with this and now decided to gor for a "--nodeps" ... while I type this udev, lvm2 and udev-init-scripts get emerged OK now. Phew. openrc installs now as well ... so now for "dispatch-conf" and "disabling the persistent nic names" Seems as if the biggest problems are solved right now? S
