All, here is an updated version of the news item. If there are no objections/corrections/criticisms, this will be committed on 2011/5/1.
This includes input from several comments I received on this thread. Someone suggested that we make emerge not work until the news item is read. There is nothing I can do in openrc to make something like that happen. It would be something that would require a portage modification. Also, that wouldn't really do much for us, because someone could still read the news item, emerge the packages, then they could still end up rebooting before they follow the steps, so I don't see what something like that buys us. I still do not have a link to the front page news item. If there isn't one, should I delete the last paragraph before I commit? Also, the way you can recover if you boot your system before following the steps is mentioned in the news item now, and there's not really anything more to it, so I'm not sure where else it should be mentioned. What does everyone think? William
Title: Baselayout update Author: Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> Author: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2011-05-01 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/baselayout-2 The baselayout package provides files which all systems must have in order to function properly. You are currently using version 1.x, which has several issues. The most significant of these is that the included init scripts are written entirely in bash, which makes them slow and not very flexible. On 2011/05/08, you will see an update for sys-apps/baselayout to 2.x and a new package, sys-apps/openrc. It is recommended that you perform this update as soon as possible. Please note, after these packages are emerged, it is __Absolutely_Critical__ that you immediately update your configuration files with dispatch-conf, etc-update or a similar tool then follow the steps in the migration guide located at the following URL. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml FAILURE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THESE STEPS WILL RESULT IN AN UNBOOTABLE SYSTEM! IF THIS SHOULD HAPPEN, YOU WILL NEED TO BOOT FROM A LIVE CD OR DVD, MOUNT YOUR ROOT FILE SYSTEM, CHROOT INTO THAT ENVIRONMENT AND FOLLOW THE ABOVE STEPS! For more information or support regarding this change please see the following: - link to news item (should contain info regarding where to obtain support)
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