On Wednesday 11 May 2011 03:07:32 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).
Jim, it's a good idea to post a bug so that they can change the documentation. -- Regards, Mick
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