[NEWS] OpenRC and baselayout 2 will reach ~arch soon

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dberkholz · Post by **dberkholz** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:18 am

This forums thread is for discussion of the www.gentoo.org posting, "OpenRC and baselayout 2 will reach ~arch soon." Post your comments and suggestions here.

OpenRC, the replacement for Gentoo's current services system (known as baselayout), will soon reach ~arch on all platforms. It replaces the previous bash-only rc system in baselayout with an rc system that has a C-based core and uses only POSIX-compliant shell code.

OpenRC runs natively on a wide variety of systems. Out of the box, it's compatible with Gentoo Linux, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Embedded Gentoo, and Gentoo VServers. It also works with FreeBSD and NetBSD and, once some installation problems get fixed, will be added to their package repositories, ports and pkgsrc.

Before upgrading, read the OpenRC Migration Guide so you update your system properly once OpenRC and baselayout 2 are installed.

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:44 am

OpenRC is not yet in pkgsrc or ports

I'll be putting it into pkgsrc-wip myself (hopefully next week) after a few installation issues have been ironed out. Same issues affecting me not requesting it in FreeBSD ports either.

Hwoarang · Post by **Hwoarang** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:10 pm

I ve emerged baselayout-2.0. Everything works perfect and the boot sequence is so much faster

Great Job

sian · Post by **sian** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:51 pm

Me too. Good job and nice howto

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:24 pm

moved some posts to openrc support thread

NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:58 pm

Since the article states that OpenRC is the new standard, will all new installations have baselayout-2 and OpenRC by default? Is it something that is part of the stage tarball, or the installation medium? Meaning, will it be the default for the 2007.0 releases, or will it be included in the 2008.0 releases / new stage tarballs?

2welly · Post by **2welly** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:06 pm

i wanna know that too, if it's in future a standard. For me Baselayout-2 and openRC works fine

Dralnu · Post by **Dralnu** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:34 am

So, OpenRC is basically a version of baselayout done in C rather than bash?

96140 · Post by **96140** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:33 am

<3 · Post by <3 » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:35 am

might give these two a shot once i gets marked ~amd64. It's about time we got a replacement for the old baselayout. Is it possible to revert back if something doesn't work?

lightseeker · Post by **lightseeker** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:55 am

Hi!
I've just synced and OpenRC and baselayout-2 have hit the tree (~amd64 here). It took me five minutes to merge the changes, rebooted and everything is working fine.

Thank you.

dony · Post by **dony** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:44 am

Hi,

great HOWTO - takes 5 Min. to work ..... (~x86)

I use rc_parallel="YES" in /etc/rc.conf --> after initializing the kernel my Xserver starts immediately ... WOW the fastet boot
I've ever see!

cheers

Dony

2welly · Post by **2welly** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:26 pm

that's right, my system start runs fast and smooth on ~amd64.

ToeiRei · Post by **ToeiRei** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:36 pm

running smoothly since 2.0 was masked and the info was just some lines on IRC

but the speed is amazing

Rei

Unbob · Post by **Unbob** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:06 pm

Great improvement. Thanks a lot to everyone involved.

pilla · Post by **pilla** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:00 pm

Please don't post support questions here. Everything support related should go [topic=688186]here[/topic].

Posts from people that insist posting support questions in this thread will be dustbinned.

kostja · Post by **kostja** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 am

It seems to work fine here. But be warned, it will delete you /etc/conf.d/net file.

Good, that I had a backup.

Konstantin

theDOC_23 · Post by **theDOC_23** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:16 pm

kostja wrote:It seems to work fine here. But be warned, it will delete you /etc/conf.d/net file.

Good, that I had a backup.

oh yes it does. luckily i didn't just reboot after finishing dispatch-conf. i had a backup buried somewhere too. would have been a pain in the a** to set up pppoe/inet again, without beeing able to look it up in the inet. the net.example file was also moved...

LoSeR_5150 · Post by **LoSeR_5150** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:02 pm

Working great here. One quick question ( I don't think this is a "support" question but someone correct me if I'm wrong) On my x86 machine it backed up my net configuration as net.save, but it didn't do this on my amd64 box. Does anyone know of why this behavior would occur?

SlitherX · Post by **SlitherX** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:33 pm

i am already using openrc in multiple vservers. it runs perfect

<3 · Post by <3 » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:58 pm

my migration was successful although the boot time isn't that much different.

uzz75 · Post by **uzz75** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:51 am

There is no splash after upgrade....

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:23 am

<3 wrote:my migration was successful although the boot time isn't that much different.

I feel exactly the same. I really wonder what all the noise is about. This just confirms what we all already know: the placebo effect do exist.

Or maybe it is just that you only notice some improvement if your boot time is >3 minutes or so.

I can't say if it's indeed faster or slower, but whatever it is, it's nothing radical like some people around says. Maybe people using xdm will notice something... I don't know since I boot on command line. Just a guess.

Paapaa · Post by **Paapaa** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:23 am

How about some actual boot time results? Like in seconds? (Of course verifying that same services are started...)

uzz75 · Post by **uzz75** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:10 am