{"id":1401,"date":"2012-05-05T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:36:58","slug":"finalbaselayout2gentoobump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2012\/finalbaselayout2gentoobump\/","title":{"rendered":"Final baselayout2 gentoo bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bumped my primary email\/database\/webserver box up to date.  Now all my gentoo boxes are past the annoyingly useless tweaks required for gentoo&#8217;s baselayout2.  I love gentoo land, where every bit of pain is a lesson.  This one included&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all the usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/doc\/en\/openrc-migration.xml\" title=\"baselayout2 migration\" target=\"_blank\">baselayout2<\/a> annoyances<\/li>\n<li>cyrus-imapd, my own personal nightmare, got bumped and added a [mysql] use flag, triggered by my global [mysql] flag (bad idea?) &#8211; kept crashing until I removed that flag; razor spamassassin plugin also needed some love<\/li>\n<li>crazy smoking-appliances power outage in the middle of the massive [emerge -DavuN world] &#8211; my employer Progress Energy did a good job of fixing an underground cable fault (even though it took them from 10pm to 4am)<\/li>\n<li>texlive was so old it took me oodles of [emerge world]&#8217;ing and unmerging and revdep-rebuild&#8217;ing and depclean&#8217;ing and manual pruning to get it cooperating<\/li>\n<li>moving the kernel from 2.6.old-as-dust to 3.2, lots of unnecessary annoying bits, including oldconfig handling that defaulted to adding 1000 unneeded NIC drivers<\/li>\n<li>and the bang-your-head-til-it-hurts award&#8230; after converting network settings to openrc (in \/etc\/conf.d\/net now), after rebooting, eth1 somehow popped up as the primary route for all traffic &#8211; it&#8217;s always a minor inconvenience when you can&#8217;t reach the internet.  removing the eth1 gateway address had me humming again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and away we go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bumped my primary email\/database\/webserver box up to date. Now all my gentoo boxes are past the annoyingly useless tweaks required for gentoo&#8217;s baselayout2. I love gentoo land, where every bit of pain is a lesson. This one included&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[165,145,63],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo-notes","category-gentoo-server","tag-annoyances","tag-baselayout2","tag-cyrus-imap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-mB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}