050606 Rumen Yotov wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. >> After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages & various 'virtuals' >> it seemed that pkg 'setserial' had been dropped from 'system', >> so after trying 'qpkg -I -q setserial' without anything listed, >> I unmerged it (after having a quick look at its man file); >> I also deleted 'serial' from /etc/init.d , which seemed unnecessary now. >> The system rebooted, but there was a series of warning messages, >> which disappeared after I remerged 'setserial' & rebooted again. >> What is 'setserial' needed for ? If its omission causes warnings, >> why has it been dropped from 'system' ? Anyone have useful info ? >> More generally, isn't there a need for a listing of Gentoo updates, >> ie packages added/dropped & those included/removed in/from 'system' >> (not incl all the myriad updates of individual packages, of course) ? >> Perhaps there is such a list, but I haven't found it. > Have/had this problem/issue too, > received a warning about missing /etc/init.d/serial during boot phase. > Emerging "setserial" must have fixed it, haven't rebooted yet (to check). > Think this began after installing the new baselayout > which beside this works OK.
Always good to know I'm not the only one (smile) ! No, that wasn't the case for me, as I last updated Baselayout 050327 . There seems to be a problem if Setserial isn't installed, but in that case surely it should still be included in 'system'. Anyone have an explanation ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
