Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: | With that bug fixed by now is there still need for a news entry? I don't think I make that call, but if the current plastering-over would generally keep existing setups from breaking, I'm happier.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
Excerpts from Samuli Suominen's message of 2012-03-29 19:59:17 +0200: I've been told dracut is able to handle this. Unverified. Dracut doesn't need anything built static. -- Amadeusz Żołnowski signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
On 03/30/2012 10:56 AM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Samuli Suominen's message of 2012-03-29 19:59:17 +0200: I've been told dracut is able to handle this. Unverified. Dracut doesn't need anything built static. Thanks for verifying. Expected nothing less. I've reopened the bug[1] for genkernel so it doesn't get lost... [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/409277
Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
On 03/22/2012 03:20 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: [1] For one, genkernel should bomb out if it can't comply with a command-line arg instead of just putting non-alert text up. There is already a bug open about this issue: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409277 With that bug fixed by now is there still need for a news entry? Best, Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
On 03/29/2012 12:58 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/22/2012 03:20 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: [1] For one, genkernel should bomb out if it can't comply with a command-line arg instead of just putting non-alert text up. There is already a bug open about this issue: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409277 With that bug fixed by now is there still need for a news entry? Best, Sebastian It doesn't look fixed to me, only temporarily worked around to force USE static on cryptsetup. Should be kept open until genkernel is fixed to generate the initramfs in a way it doesn't need the static cryptsetup. I've been told dracut is able to handle this. Unverified. - Samuli
Re: [gentoo-dev] Arbitrary breakage: sys-fs/cryptsetup
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:48 -0600, sch...@subverted.org wrote: Normally I don't take to the skies with this sort of thing, but this was ridiculous. In what I am sure was a well-intentioned change, cryptsetup recently silently lost its default USE=static status. For one of the many people actually using cryptsetup in an initrd, this came as a lovely surprise this morning as I found my new kernel/initrd completely unbootable. To compound matters, udev-181's incompatibility with my old kernel (no DEVTMPFS, separate /usr), and my primary system was completely unbootable. Please - if you're going to significantly change functionality that (whether correct or not) people have come to depend on, have the decency to at least publish a news article on it. I may find 'eselect news' annoying, but I at least read it. Before we get to bikeshedding, I'm well aware there were multiple ways to have prevented this, but none of them were in place [1]. What was in place was default behavior that had been there for a very long time. [1] For one, genkernel should bomb out if it can't comply with a command-line arg instead of just putting non-alert text up. There is already a bug open about this issue: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409277 However, I must still thank you for alerting the list about it; you saved lots of peoples' systems (probably including mine, if I had not read this message) from being rendered unbootable. -Alexandre Rostovtsev.
