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Posted on 06 May 2011
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OpenRC [1], the replacement for Gentoo's current services system (known as=
baselayout), will be stabilized on May 8. It replaces the previous
bash-only rc system in baselayout with an rc system that has a C-based
core and uses only POSIX-compliant shell code.
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.
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 [2] then follow the steps in the OpenRC
Migration Guide [3].
Failure to follow all of these steps will result in an unbootable
system. If that happens, you will need to boot from a LiveCD or LiveDVD,
mount your root filesystem, chroot into that environment [4] and follow the=
above steps.
1. http://roy.marples.name/openrc
2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap==4
3. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
4. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap==6#doc_chap1
(Christian Faulhammer and William Hubbs contributed this announcement.)
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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