On 11/05/11 04:07, Jim Burwell wrote:
> On 5/10/2011 18:25, Indi wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:20:02AM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have
>>>> done theirs?  Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there issues?  
>>>> I'm
>>>> mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have.  Just a 
>>>> simple
>>>> works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice.  List issues if you had any.
>>> I'm using ~amd64 and upgraded long, long, long ago. No problems at all
>>> during or after the upgrade. I would expect it to be even smoother
>>> process now than it was then.
>>>
>>> IIRC the biggest deal with the baselayout/openrc upgrade was that you
>>> must update a bunch of config files, which are not necessarily all
>>> blind/trivial updates. Failing to update them could make rebooting a
>>> sad experience.
>> Same here, on x86 and ppc. Most of it was handled automatically and 
>> the rest via dispatch-conf. Works just fine.
>>
> Went pretty smoothly for me following the upgrade guide.  I have a
> gentoo based iptables firewall with a fairly complicated network setup
> with postup()  functions.  I made the mistake of taking out the BASH
> syntax (the surrounding parens, etc) on my postup() function based on
> the guide, wondering if it'd work or not, and sure enough it wanted the
> old BASH style syntax for those functions, but the new style (w/o
> parens, and quoted blocks with CRs) on the "normal" sections.
> 
> They should probably make a note of this in the config guide.
> 
> It's good to see they added in support for iproute2 rules natively
> instead of requiring a postup() function.  I'd like to see them add a
> similar functionality for adding static ARP entries too (right now using
> my own postup() for that).
> 

Just file a request on bugzilla. They have to know what you like to have
included.

justin

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