[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
William Hubbs posted on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:05:19 -0500 as excerpted: there was a regression in 0.8.1, so 0.8.2 is now the stable candidate. I propose thatsince the differences between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 are very small, we should keep the news item date and stabilization date from my original announcement. - news item release on 5/1 - stabilization on 5/8. How are docs doing? Is there a sample handbook update yet? I've not seen much action on that bug, but that doesn't mean it's not happening behind the scenes. Still, lack of news from that front has me worried. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
William Hubbs posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:49:36 -0500 as excerpted: Openrc is not just a gentoo init system; I know that at least Alpine Linux [1] also uses it. William [1] http://www.alpinelinux.org Thanks for the specific mention. I've seen non-gentoo users mentioned a couple times in bugs, etc, but had no clue who that might be. Now there's at least some idea. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:27 +0200 as excerpted: 1) It's a couple of years old now. :) 2) Having used it all that time on some systems, I don't see that many superficial changes, or for that matter, deviations from the old init system. I would rather think baselayout-2/openrc simply extends and improves on baselayout-1. Having used and watched the new version evolve, I agree, to a point. Yes it's an extension of the old. But like that old tale of the frog in the boiling water, I think more has changed than we may realize at first. Or another way to put it: If it's so close to the old version, there should be little protest in going back. But I know at least personally, I've *NO* interest in doing that! For one thing, /real/ parallel boot makes quite a difference! For another, I remember baselayout-1's lack of real dependency based ordering in early-boot, with the arbitrary ordered list of early-start services as a substitute since it couldn't manage dependencies at that level. But that said, it's a definite extension of the ideas found in baselayout-1, indeed. Stable Gentooers should find much they already know in the new system. It's certainly not the change that switching to systemd, for example, would be. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
Patrick Lauer posted on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:08:32 +0200 as excerpted: On 04/12/11 16:56, William Hubbs wrote: at long last, we have an openrc stable candidate. Thanks to all who kept chiseling away at this issue From a user who has been following developments since the baselayout 1.13 era, with the bugs filed and ultimately fixed to prove it... It really feels good to be this close, as for awhile I wondered if there'd forever be that gap between ~arch and stable. It really did take a number of people a monumental amount of effort to bridge that gap, and we owe them a lot of gratitude for it, the more so as we see all that effort paying off. =:^) Thanks! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
