Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple package moves into one

2012-07-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 15/07/12 06:16 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 07/15/2012 03:08 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> Is it valid to do something like: >>> >>> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythp

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:53:20 -0400 as excerpted: > ...if going this route, why not simply not bother to pivot_root out of > the initramfs at all? or pivot_root but only into a directory structure > still sitting in the initramfs? As long as all non-root bits are in > sepa

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: gnustep-libs/popplerkit and gnustep-apps/vindaloo

2012-07-16 Thread Bernard Cafarelli
# Bernard Cafarelli (16 Jul 2012) # No upstream development since 2008 # Needs patching for poppler-0.20 # Fails to run with current GNUstep runtime and stable poppler # Use another poppler-based viewer or gnustep-apps/gspdf instead # Removal in 30 days (bug #426268) gnustep-libs/popplerkit gnust

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/07/12 09:00 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > wrote: >> Thinking in that direction does stimulate yet another idea, tho. >> What about a squashfs root? AFAIK squashfs is read-only at u

Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple package moves into one

2012-07-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/07/12 06:16 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 07/15/2012 03:08 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: >> Is it valid to do something like: >> >> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins move >> media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Duncan wrote: > Alternatively, I could reconfigure inittab to start my script first .. > that actually sounds more complex Use init. It would be a sensitive script. If it fails the kernel is sad. //Peter

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Duncan
Michael Mol posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:57:28 -0400 as excerpted: > This is sounding closer and closer to an on-disk liveCD. It is, isn't it? But I'd want to keep it reasonably small, as I guess I'd be rebuilding the squashfs pretty much whenever I updated any package that it contained binar

[gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev

2012-07-16 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 13/07/12, William Hubbs wrote: > What about using devtmpfs alone? It's quiet fine for very simple systems. -- Nicolas Sebrecht