On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:13:24 -0400,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:04 PM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:00:50 -0400,
> > Rich Freeman wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check
> >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest
> >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I
> >> > have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I
> >> > have found dracut very nice and would be sad to give it up.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas on what is happening here?
> >>
> >> I'm not running 045 but it looks to me that systemd is just supported
> >> automatically if it is installed. The USE flag was removed, but
> >> support was not.
> >
> > OK, thanks a lot, I wish they would have news items for such things,
> > or at least a changelog which seems to be missing in that directory.
> >
>
> I have no idea why you don't have a changelog - those are
> system-generated from the git logs and maintainers have nothing to do
> with them.
>
> The relevant commit message seems to be:
> commit 90bb5611b5aa9279ff3b0d4f5c25240bf4b0f9db
> Author: Mike Gilbert <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun Jul 2 19:06:08 2017 -0400
>
> sys-kernel/dracut: bump to 045
>
> - Clean up ebuild code in general
> - Remove unnecessary version setting
> - Simplify gentoo.conf config file
> - Depend on >=sys-apps/kmod-15 for libkmod
> - Stop removing systemd and other modules
> - Drop systemd USE flag
> - Depend on sys-apps/coreutils[xattr] (bug 613516)
>
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/615898
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/613516
> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p9, Repoman-2.3.2_p77
>
> :100644 100644 6525882cc17... 04a511a44f1... M sys-kernel/dracut/Manifest
> :000000 100644 00000000000... 86fddcc57bb... A
> sys-kernel/dracut/dracut-045.ebuild
>
I wonder if its because I am still using rsync to sync the portage
directory? There are no changelogs anywhere! or nothing by that name.
--
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you spend it?
John Covici
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