Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread Eray Aslan
On 2012-01-01 11:50 PM, Olivier Crête wrote: systemd/dracut/etc handles /usr on its own filesystem just fine. What is required is that /usr must be mounted before the pivot_root away from the initramfs. Nitpick: I don't think pivot_root is used anymore. It is basically unlink, mount, chroot

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: And how does dracut know which files it needs to mount my /usr? I assume based on the selection of modules that you enabled when building/running it. I believe dracut builds static binaries, so it mainly needs updating when

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread Kent Fredric
On 3 January 2012 01:58, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: And how does dracut know which files it needs to mount my /usr? I assume based on the selection of modules that you enabled when building/running it. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2012-01-02 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/19/11 7:14 PM, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: One project that could be very useful for Gentoo is an automated stabilization/testing for ebuilds. Obviously it will require some work from the ebuild maintainers, but the ability to distribute the stabilization recipes across a volunteering Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 05:39:39AM +, Duncan wrote: Olivier Crête posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:17:50 -0500 as excerpted: On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 12:46 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I don't think the /{bin,sbin,lib} and /usr/sbin directories should be deleted. However, what I would

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:58:00 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Sven Vermeulen sw...@gentoo.org wrote: And how does dracut know which files it needs to mount my /usr? I assume based on the selection of modules that you enabled when building/running

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:54:57 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: For a long-term view, 1) is the only way to go. Splitting packages randomly between rootfs and /usr was never really correct, and we especially shouldn't force users to junk their systems with shattered packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:37:41PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:54:57 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: For a long-term view, 1) is the only way to go. Splitting packages randomly between rootfs and /usr was never really correct, and we especially

[gentoo-dev] Large ChangeLogs now split

2012-01-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hiya everyone, just for your information, as discussed and agreed some time ago [*], all ChangeLog files in gentoo-x86 have now been manually split following an algorithm similar to logrotate (size 100K, yearly). For details see the thread linked below. Cheers, Andreas [*]

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: ChangeLog transmission-2.41.ebuild

2012-01-02 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 01/02/2012 11:41 PM, Tomas Chvatal (scarabeus) wrote: scarabeus12/01/02 21:41:29 Modified: ChangeLog transmission-2.41.ebuild Log: Make it build on my system - add intltool/gettext to hard deps, fixes bug #379887. Reorder deps alphabetically. Depend on any ssl