Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: systemd rootprefix migration

[Gokturk Yuksek]

> On Jul 13, 2017, at 21:32, Mike Gilbert  wrote:
> 
> Please share your comments/questions on the proposed news item below.
> There is no immediate action required for most users, but it seems
> like a significant enough change to warrant a broadcast.
> 
> --
> 
> Title: systemd rootprefix migration
> Author: Mike Gilbert 
> Posted: 2017-07-14
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0
> Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/systemd-234
> 
> Starting with the 234 release, Gentoo's sys-apps/systemd package will
> be built with rootprefix=/. This means most of the included programs
> and system units will be installed under /lib/systemd instead of
> /usr/lib/systemd.
> 
> This change brings Gentoo into alignment with most other distros which
> still maintain a distiction between

s/distiction/distinction/

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: systemd rootprefix migration

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Sam Jorna (wraeth)  wrote:
>> Symlinks are provided for /usr/lib/systemd/systemd and
>> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown to avoid breaking bootloader configs
>> and to allow the system to be shutdown/rebooted without issue.
>
> Will these symlinks be maintained indefinitely? Would it be worth
> suggesting updating cmdline's to point to the new location rather than
> the symlink?

I don't see a strong reason to get rid of them, though it would be
nice to tidy up the ebuild at some point. I'll add a suggestion to
update the kernel command line.

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only

[Lucas Ramage]

The documentation is being updated. There is no need to worry about that.

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 8:09 PM DarKRaveR  wrote:

> Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs 
> wrote:
> >> OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns
> >> about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly.
> >>
> >> Here is the newsitem covering this change.
> >>
> >> William
> >>
> > This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl
> > (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or
> > find someone who can do it for you.
> >
>
> Not only bootloader installers.
> It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI
> bootmanager's behavior/configuration.
> I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO.
>
> Regards
>
> -Sven
>
>

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-mobilephone/esms, sci-chemistry/icm, dev-python/south...

[Pacho Ramos]

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Not usable, dead since 2003, removal in a month (#24706)
app-mobilephone/esms

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Proprietary software, fetch restricted, not actively maintained, needs to
# be updated, with multiple QA issues, bug #622414. Removal in a month.
sci-chemistry/icm
# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Doesn't work with >=openvpn-2.3, removal in a month (#470696).
net-vpn/kvpnc

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Doesn't work with any django version in the tree, tests fail, removal in a
# month (#482498).
dev-python/south

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# No reverse deps, doesn't build, bug #569068. Removal in a month.
net-misc/jumpgate

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Lots of unresolved bugs, not compatible with QT 5.7 either, bug #574672.
# Removal in a month.
net-p2p/bitcoinxtd
net-p2p/bitcoinxt-qt

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# Our package is completely outdated and needs a major version bump (and
# pkgmove). Bug #541410. Removal in a month.
dev-util/febootstrap

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dev-python/python-sipsimple
net-voip/blink

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# (#579400). Removal in a month.
net-irc/loqui

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net-nntp/leafnode

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# Doesn't compile, upstream dead, removal in a month (#584296).
dev-util/mutrace

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# #587288. Removal in a month.
sys-libs/libacpi
sys-power/yacpi

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# games-engines/renpy cannot be used with its only reverse dep in the tree
# as-is, it needs a major version bump and build fixing too, bug #587872.
# Removal in a month.
games-engines/renpy

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# Doesn't build for a long time, bug #587942
sci-mathematics/cado-nfs

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# Doesn't build (#592992), dead since 2011 and nothing needs it in the tree.
# Removal in a month.
dev-libs/mozldap

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# Not compatible with gcc6 (#594390), also removed from other distributions
# due it being unmaintained and buggy. Removal in a month.
net-analyzer/nepenthes

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# tree (#594668). Removal in a month.
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media-libs/embree

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# Not compatible with QT 5.7, bug #595452. Removal in a month.
net-p2p/litecoin-qt

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# Not buildable (#596602), no reverse deps, removal in a month.
app-pda/fusepod

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# Not buildable for a long time (#597040). Removal in a month.
dev-util/lorax

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dev-db/recutils

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# maintainer, removal in a month.
dev-libs/libRocket
games-fps/warsow

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# Fails to build, no reverse deps (#600768). Removal in a month.
app-editors/mp

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# month.
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# refused to even try to migrate it (#601350). Also security issues
# (#611290). Removal in a month.
x11-terms/evilvte

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# Removal in a month.
dev-libs/qcodeedit

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app-misc/flasm

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# real maintainer taking care about fixing this. Removal in a month.
sys-apps/v86d

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# Doesn't build anymore (#607482). Removal in a month.
net-irc/irssi-xmpp

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Doesn't work with current flash-player versions, bug #609016. Removal in a
# month.
media-libs/hal-flash

# Pacho Ramos  (14 Jul 2017)
# Nothing needs 

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles/uclibc/packages: prefix app-misc/pax-utils with '*'

[Sergei Trofimovich]

On Sun,  9 Jul 2017 18:19:13 +0100
Sergei Trofimovich  wrote:

> It's the only entry of all profiles without '*'.
> 
>   portage/gentoo/profiles $ grep '^[^*-\#]' $(find -name packages)
>   ./uclibc/packages:app-misc/pax-utils
> 
> It's an ancient entry from 2005:
> 
> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-gitmig-20150809-draft/commit/7bed3578ef4990787cd6881c8fc8d5085b617494
> 
> Not sure if entry should be removed completely or explicitly
> pulled in @system.
> 
> The change pulls it in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich 
> ---
>  profiles/uclibc/packages | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/profiles/uclibc/packages b/profiles/uclibc/packages
> index 569e5b5271..d02c949b3e 100644
> --- a/profiles/uclibc/packages
> +++ b/profiles/uclibc/packages
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -app-misc/pax-utils
> +*app-misc/pax-utils
>  
>  # remove stuff not needed on uclibc
>  -*net-misc/iputils
> -- 
> 2.13.2
> 

Pushed.

-- 

  Sergei


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