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.
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:
My home server has been mis-behaving of late :sick:.Bash keep segfaulting during emerges - one time it caused zlib to get merged incorrectly which meant I had to haul a keyboard and monitor to it as ssh wouldn’t let me in anymore. I was not a happy chappy :(
I’m not sure why this is, as everything is as stable as rock (except for my horde + php5 combo which causes iconv utf8 assert errors in my apache logs).
….. because we have to …. and you must accept this :puzzled:
Thanks for making me laugh Kumba :D
//me thinks that the people who matter about software patents will not be reading my blog or Planet Gentoo
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