OK, so the last baselayout-1.12.0-pre1 and pre2 was a bit of a mess. It borked many peoples systems :barf:The reason was trying to integrate a user submitted patch for improved parallel startup with our new code that introduced starting, stopping and inactive statuses. The odd thing is that not one of the baselayout devs noticed this- but then, I don’t suppose we have many failing services either!We think we’ve fixed it in pre3, so it’s been removed from package.
OK. I am really really stiff all over. This gardening lark is the way to a trimmer bod all right ;) The key is to get going- sometimes I need a kick up the back side, but once I’m going I’m like the Duracel Bunny :PSo the back garden is pretty bare now. The grass has been taken up, another tree stump removed and some digging and weeding done. Even though it now looks very bare, it also looks very good as we can finally see some real progress!
baselayout-1.12.0_pre1 sneaked past my radar :O , so I stabled 1.11.13 and did a 1.12.0_pre1-r1 unstable for all arches. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)Some note-worthy networking features1) If you use DHCP, you’ll need the ~ARCH version of your fav DHCP client (except for dhclient)2) We now arping static IP’s requested3) We calculate a route metric based on interface type so we can “prefer” a wired interface over a wireless one4) /etc/{resolv,ntp,yp}.conf will be moved to /var/lib/net-scripts and symlinked back /etc5) Each interface has it’s own {resolv,ntp,yp}.
I wrote another pump patch that allows pump to create /etc/ntp.conf based on ntp servers received from a DHCP server instead of getting my scripts to create it by parsing pump status output. This makes pump a bit faster. Suprisingly it is the fastest by far of the dhcp clients. Without giving any hard numbers (stats are lies and damn lies), here’s my feelings on the fastest DHCP clients in portage:
I spent last weekend removing the turf from the back lawn. I removed about a third of it over the weekend- damn it’s hard work especially in the blazing sun and the sweat rolling down your back and into your eyes. :(Arms are quite sore this morning, but should recover for another go Wednesday night. Hopefully I’ll get the entire turf up in a week or two so we can lay down new turf before the start of Autumn (that’s Fall to you colonials :P ).
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