So I’ve not been blogging for a while, and if you’ve sent me email I’ve not replied right away. Well, the reason for all that is my server was dying- any write to the hard disk seems like it killed the server. Nasty :jawdrop:Now I have a new server :) It’s AMD64 Sempron 2800+ with 2x 120gig SATA disks in RAID 1, DVD writer and 512 meg memory. Installing Gentoo on it was a snap, however for hardened to work I have to use openssl-0.
Well, what I said earlier about being confident about the last release was wrong! Services stuck on each other and a few other things caused a downright mess! :O
This time, I think I’ve cracked it. What’s more is that other people have verified my patches, so all reported services sticking, not responding, not starting when they said they did, etc should now have been resolved :)
I also pushed out a udev/sysinit fix to all baselayouts in preparation for fixing bug #118419.
With recent baselayout-1.12 pre releases, we’ve changed the default timeouts so things like wpa_supplicant, netplug and ifplugd jump straight into the background and mark the net service as inactive. This is great for fast boots, but it had a problems bug #112088, #118801 :?
Well, those have been solved whilst keeping our nice defaults :) Several other important issues have also been resolved 8) The bad news is that all of this has forced quite a few changes in the code, but everything seems peachy on all my boxes ;)
With the recent flame fest on-dev about a lack of vision and innovation its always nice to hear other people praising my work, especially when they’re a respected Kernel developer :)
And with recent ego stroking from fellow Gentoo dev brix about how easy and flexable the networking config is in Gentoo on IRC yesterday I really do have the Warm Fuzzy Feeling of a job well done :D
Of course, it’s not done yet- baselayout-1.
bash-3.1-r2 hit ~ARCH last night which works with baselayout-1.11.However, it does not work with baselayout-1.12. which I corrected this morning. Hopefully everything now works baselayout-wise with bash-3.1 :)
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