[gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.5 sucks
Hi, at the weekend I upgraded to baselayout-1.12.5. And this is the worse version of baselayout since I'm using Gentoo. The first reason therefore is, that the kernel log is spamming to your console all the time, because of the loglevel doesn't become set to 1 anymore. The workaround is to hack /etc/init.d/checkroot to call `dmesg -n 1` on startup, even though in /etc/conf.d/rc is a variable RC_DMESG_LOGLEVEL which is set to 1 by default, but it doesn't affect anything. The other reason is, that independent from which net.*-scripts are attached to a runlevel, at least one net.*-script besides net.lo becomes started according to RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=no [1] in /etc/conf.d/rc. Such behaviour shouldn't be the default. If I want a distro where anything happens automatically, I would use Ubunto or Suse. Furthermore it isn't even possible to stop this behaviour by setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING to none or lo [1]. The workaround therefore is to set RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.* in /etc/conf.d/rc. But however, the best workaround would be the following I guess. :) echo ~sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5 /etc/portage/package.mask If I just misunderstood the new configurations of baselayout-1.12.5, feel free to answer, before other people apply my bad workarounds. ;) [1] # RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING allows some flexibility with the 'net' service. # The following values are allowed: # none - The 'net' service is always considered up. # no- This basically means that at least one net.* service besides net.lo # must be up. This can be used by notebook users that have a wifi and # a static nic, and only wants one up at any given time to have the # 'net' service seen as up. # lo- This is the same as the 'no' option, but net.lo is also counted. # This should be useful to people that do not care about any specific # interface being up at boot. # yes - For this ALL network interfaces MUST be up for the 'net' service to # be considered up. Regards Sebastian Noack -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.5 sucks
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:35:38 +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote: The other reason is, that independent from which net.*-scripts are attached to a runlevel, at least one net.*-script besides net.lo becomes started according to RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=no [1] in /etc/conf.d/rc. Such behaviour shouldn't be the default. If I want a distro where anything happens automatically, I would use Ubunto or Suse. Furthermore it isn't even possible to stop this behaviour by setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING to none or lo [1]. This is nothing to do with the init scripts. There are two ways an interface can be started, through the init scripts or through hotplug. The RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING deals with how others services, that require a network connection, work. The workaround therefore is to set RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.* in /etc/conf.d/rc. This isn't a workaround, it is the correct solution. If you don't want your network interfaces, or anything else, started by hotplug, this is the correct place to disable it. A package offering more flexible configuration options doesn't make it suck, IMO. you complain about Ubuntu and SUSE doing things automatically, then complain about Gentoo increasing your choices. -- Neil Bothwick signature.asc Description: PGP signature
