Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/31/2011 02:22 PM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: W dniu 30.07.2011 15:55, Samuli Suominen pisze: On 07/30/2011 01:46 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:27:27 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Since running separate /usr without mounting it from initramfs on top of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/31/2011 05:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:55:23 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: I dislike the IUSE=+static some packages are currently doing to workaround this, instead of moving the needed shared libs to / I dislike the idea of pciutils and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Samuli Suominen schrieb: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague like adding 1+1 on / and /usr filesystem sizes and counting the risk of corrupted filesystem from that (one word: backup) Maybe I have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:23:07 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: this is starting to look good: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Move_all_to_.2Fusr Honestly, that seems like a poor draft to me. First of all, I don't see a reason to move /sbin to /usr/bin instead

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/01/2011 10:45 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Samuli Suominen schrieb: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague like adding 1+1 on / and /usr filesystem sizes and counting the risk of corrupted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Samuli Suominen schrieb: should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data directories such as /home or /var have /usr on / so when / goes down, you still keep your data Putting /home and /var on separate partitions can increase isolation even further, that is true. On desktop

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Eray Aslan
On 2011-08-01 10:23 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague I will switch if I have to but saying / and /usr on the same filesystem is the better technical solution just annoys me. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:22:02 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org wrote: Samuli Suominen schrieb: should think this inverse; make separate partitions for the data directories such as /home or /var have /usr on / so when / goes down, you still keep your data Putting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01-08-2011 08:31, Eray Aslan wrote: On 2011-08-01 10:23 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate /usr, or they have been very vague I will switch if I have to but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Dale
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01-08-2011 08:31, Eray Aslan wrote: On 2011-08-01 10:23 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate /usr, or they have been

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:58:49 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I thought Gentoo was about choices? It seems one choice is being removed or is it? Gentoo might be, but Fedora isn't. This is a decision that was made by one Fedora developer. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Samuli Suominen schrieb am 01.08.11 um 09:23 Uhr: On 07/31/2011 05:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:55:23 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: I dislike the IUSE=+static some packages are currently doing to workaround this, instead of moving the needed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 01-08-2011 a las 13:12 +0200, Marc Schiffbauer escribió: [...] * /usr/portage can get very huge and is often written to. With / and /usr being on the same FS you really want to have /usr/portage on a seperate FS then I am sure there are some other reasons too. Just my 2¢

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb am 01.08.11 um 11:19 Uhr: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01-08-2011 08:31, Eray Aslan wrote: On 2011-08-01 10:23 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: that's my impression now too since nobody has managed to provide useful case for separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Pacho Ramos schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:19 Uhr: El lun, 01-08-2011 a las 13:12 +0200, Marc Schiffbauer escribió: [...] * /usr/portage can get very huge and is often written to. With / and /usr being on the same FS you really want to have /usr/portage on a seperate FS then I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Kacper Kowalik
W dniu 01.08.2011 13:12, Marc Schiffbauer pisze: * Samuli Suominen schrieb am 01.08.11 um 09:23 Uhr: On 07/31/2011 05:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:55:23 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: I dislike the IUSE=+static some packages are currently doing to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 01-08-2011 a las 13:30 +0200, Marc Schiffbauer escribió: * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:19 Uhr: El lun, 01-08-2011 a las 13:12 +0200, Marc Schiffbauer escribió: [...] * /usr/portage can get very huge and is often written to. With / and /usr being on the same FS you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Kacper Kowalik schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:32 Uhr: I'm responding to this particular mail cause it's last in queue and because it replicates things already mentioned before. I am a zeleous follower of having seperate /usr partition, thus seeing moot arguments that goes in favour of my case

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/01/2011 02:32 PM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: W dniu 01.08.2011 13:12, Marc Schiffbauer pisze: * Samuli Suominen schrieb am 01.08.11 um 09:23 Uhr: On 07/31/2011 05:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:55:23 +0300 [ .. ] I am a zeleous follower of having seperate /usr partition,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/01/2011 03:25 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/01/2011 02:32 PM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: W dniu 01.08.2011 13:12, Marc Schiffbauer pisze: * Samuli Suominen schrieb am 01.08.11 um 09:23 Uhr: On 07/31/2011 05:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:55:23 +0300 [ .. ] I am a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:45:26 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: There is no way to reliably bring up a modern system with an empty /usr, there are two alternatives to fix it: copy /usr back to the rootfs or use an initramfs which can hide the split-off from the system. To be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
* Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb am 01.08.11 um 11:19 Uhr: I agree with Eray. Furthermore, please stop trying to reverse the game. It's those that want to break existing policies and conventions that have to justify why they want to do that, not those that want to keep using what has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:10:27 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: This isn't about systemd, but indeed it will solve one compability obstacle for them too. No harm there. Right, it's about the Gnome operating system, of which systemd is but one strongly coupled part. -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:10:27 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: * Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb am 01.08.11 um 11:19 Uhr: I agree with Eray. Furthermore, please stop trying to reverse the game. It's those that want to break existing policies and conventions that have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:30:37 +0200 Marc Schiffbauer msch...@gentoo.org wrote: * Pacho Ramos schrieb am 01.08.11 um 13:19 Uhr: Having /usr/portage on a different partition will still be supported if I understood correctly (at least, it still works fine for me even having the rest of /usr

[gentoo-dev] portage locations

2011-08-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:22:15PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote: everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I would like to see an addition of one root directory gentoo where ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff. Some of these are already moveable with ${*DIR} variables in

Re: [gentoo-dev] portage locations

2011-08-01 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:49:41 -0500 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: 20K /gentoo/tmp Maybe /tmp? /var/tmp was there for a reason. On all my systems /tmp is tmpfs, and it is not suitable for larger builds. 20K /gentoo/overlays This isn't on everyones system, so I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Zac Medico
On 08/01/2011 07:10 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: * Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb am 01.08.11 um 11:19 Uhr: I agree with Eray. Furthermore, please stop trying to reverse the game. It's those that want to break existing policies and conventions that have to justify why they want to do that,

Re: [gentoo-dev] portage locations

2011-08-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* William Hubbs schrieb am 01.08.11 um 19:49 Uhr: On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:22:15PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote: everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I would like to see an addition of one root directory gentoo where ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff. Some

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request)

2011-08-01 Thread Fabian Groffen
I'm summarising this thread [0] for the upcoming council meeting. Automatic ChangeLog generation Some people have expressed disagreement with committing ChangeLog updates for some changes. Discussion on that lead to an updated policy to document nearly all changes. Some people still really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:55:02PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: On 08/01/2011 07:10 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: * Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb am 01.08.11 um 11:19 Uhr: I agree with Eray. Furthermore, please stop trying to reverse the game. It's those that want to break existing policies