Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-13 Thread Ed W
On 13/07/2011 19:19, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 13:36:29 Ed W wrote: >> On 12/07/2011 16:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> baselayout-1 vs openrc isnt the issue. it's bash array support vs >>> flat strings. the former is supported in baselayout-1, and should be >>> supported

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 13:36:29 Ed W wrote: > On 12/07/2011 16:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > baselayout-1 vs openrc isnt the issue. it's bash array support vs > > flat strings. the former is supported in baselayout-1, and should be > > supported in openrc. William is talking about dropping

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-13 Thread Ed W
On 12/07/2011 16:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > baselayout-1 vs openrc isnt the issue. it's bash array support vs > flat strings. the former is supported in baselayout-1, and should be > supported in openrc. William is talking about dropping support from > openrc and i've laid out the way to get fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> it would be nice to come up with some level of automated conversion.  no >> matter how much we say "read the docs", there will always be people who do >> not.  i think the reason the openr

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-12 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:12:45AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > it would be nice to come up with some level of automated conversion.  no > > matter how much we say "read the docs", there will always be people who do > > not.  i think t

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > it would be nice to come up with some level of automated conversion.  no > matter how much we say "read the docs", there will always be people who do > not.  i think the reason the openrc upgrade has gone so smooth thus far is > because ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 00:54:02 William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:27:59PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont think we've had openrc in stable long enough to force people to > > migrate. so i'd keep the code putting along for now, and add a note to > > the feature removal sc

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-11 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Mike, On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:27:59PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i dont think we've had openrc in stable long enough to force people to > migrate. so i'd keep the code putting along for now, and add a note to the > feature removal schedule only after we have checks in the openrc ebuil

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday, July 11, 2011 20:38:49 William Hubbs wrote: > this bug was filed against OpenRc today [1]. The issue was that the user > was attempting to use bash arrays, which, as far as I knew are not > supported in OpenRc. they've been supported to ease migration from existing configs. > bash arra

[gentoo-dev] rfc: bash arrays in OpenRC

2011-07-11 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, this bug was filed against OpenRc today [1]. The issue was that the user was attempting to use bash arrays, which, as far as I knew are not supported in OpenRc. The migration guide and net.example both do not use them, so if the user followed all of the migration steps, they wouldn't be us