This is just a heads up for getting baselayout-2 stable. Next week I plan to put baselayout-2.0.0_rc1 into the tree without any keywords and it will be removed from package.mask (keeping the current alphas masked though). Arch teams will then be pinged on a bug to keyword baselayout-2.
Now there are, as usual, some daemons and init scripts that probably won't work. For those that don't, I have either fixed or there's patches in our bugzilla. Here's a rough summary. Regarding init scripts. Init scripts should now be strictly bourne or POSIX shell. ie, no bashisms. bash init scripts will work, but ONLY if /bin/sh is bash. Shells as /bin/sh that I've tested and found to be working are bash dash busybox zsh FreeBSD sh Also, as there's no bashisms, that also means no bash arrays. This includes our net config. config_eth0=( "1.2.3.4/24" "5.6.7.8 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) becomes config_eth0="'1.2.3.4/24' '5.6.7.8 netmask 255.255.255.0'" Pay attention to the quoting there. We still support bash arrays if and only if /bin/sh is really bash, so your existing net config should work as is. Regarding start-stop-daemon. It will now test to see if the daemon is running after it returns as some daemons love to fork and then error on a bad config. So we trap this. However, there are also some false positives where there is a big gap between forking and writing the pidfile. Examples of this are ntpd (patch in portage) and nscd (part of glibc). Also, when running in parallel, we now prefix all output. This looks very pretty on screen and is almost perfect. However, this also comes at a cost - daemons are now expected to close stdin, stdout and stderr after forking like all well written daemons should. Some don't - like gpm (latest rev is patched) and noip (patch in bugs). If they don't, then it will hang rc. Sadly, there isn't much I can do about this. Lastly, reiserfs3 and jfs users should comment on bug #116016 to ensure that my proposed patches to the userland tools actually work as I don't use those fs's much aside from basic testing. Well, that's about it. It's been a fun journey making baselayout-2 and we're almost at the end of this road :) Thanks Roy PS - Now is a very good time to test it if you're concerned about it running on your obscure arch or use some funky networking foo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
