On Saturday 01 March 2008 02:08:44 Duncan wrote: > Is direct upgrade from previous baselayout-2.0.0-rcX going to be > supported?
Existing configs should work just fine - with the exception of the modules config. It's been moved to /etc/conf.d/modules instead of the /etc/modules.autoload.d folder. There is no automated migration as complex setups would go wrong. > I was running that for some time and just now added and > upgraded to the via layman version. There's a blocker, of course, as > openrc is now providing most of the files that baselayout did. > > The problem is that unmerging the old 2.0.0-rcX baselayout in ordered to > resolve the blockage is SCARY, since it leaves the system basically > unbootable until the new setup is merged and at least basically > configured. There's also the issue of not knowing for sure just what's > going to still be around in terms of config files and the like, since > unmerging baselayout isn't exactly an everyday thing. > > FWIW, I took the jump anyway, and the etc-update seemed to go reasonably > well, but I've not rebooted yet... As others pointed out, this is a package manager issue and those blockers are there because of this. Not an OpenRC issue as such ;) Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
