On Mar 17, 2012 11:15 AM, "Bruce Hill, Jr." <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > > This item just appeared after eix-sync: > > HTPC ~ # eselect news read > 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking > Title udev-181 unmasking > Author William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> > Posted 2012-03-16 > Revision 1 > > udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19. > > This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of > udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your > system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr. > > An initramfs which does this is created by > >=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or > >=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. > > Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to >= openrc-0.9.9. > > For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL: > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken > > > > Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. > > Houston, we have a problem! >
All my servers are now happily running mdev, USE="-udev", and sys-fs/udev in package.mask... Houston... we've landed. And it's beautiful here... there's lots of work to do to prepare the colony, but it's a whole new horizon... a new world! ;-) Rgds,
