On Thursday 20 March 2008 06:59:24 Josh Saddler wrote: > I'll be working on the migration guide with Cardoe (and possibly Roy, if > we can tag-team him into submission). As much of a pain as migration > will be, we'll definitely need a howto. Fun, fun.
I already provide documentation with commands in example config files and man pages that cover nearly every aspect on OpenRC and all it's commands. The nice thing about not being a Gentoo dev means I don't feel the urge to write a migration how to. However, here's a really good primer. 1) Install OpenRC 2) Review all updated files in /etc/conf.d/ and /etc/rc.conf [1] [2] 3) If using a "volume" such as LVM, you'll find an appropriate init script in /etc/init.d that you need to add to the boot runlevel. 4) Carry on as normal [3] Thanks Roy [1] The case of variable names has been changed from UPPER to lower. This is for a few reasons (removes confusion vs environment vars, looks nicer). However, *existing* UPPER case vars should still work. [2] Paludis users will need to ensure that the init scripts checkfs and checkroot are removed. I don't care whose "bug" this is, but neither side wants to fix it. [3] A reboot is currently needed as for some reason state data isn't migrated from baselayout-1. This is probably due to OpenRC being split from baselayout and the code is pretty much the same here. Maybe some plucky Gentoo ebuild dev can step up and fix it. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
