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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

Hi All,

I've just survived a `sorcery system-update' being on devel sorcery and 
grimoire. I must say that the simpleinit thing is awfully cool, hats off 
to all who made this possible!
I didn't update since simpleinit work moved into mainstream, so I 
consider this a valid test of how things will work our for users.
Minor issues: 1) coreutils didn't install by itself, I didn't have it 
before but I expected it to be cast because it's part of the basesystem 
now (or is it?); 2) upon shutdown, `kill' produces an error once, with a 
help message, I didn't investigate; 3) network seems to start twice 
because I can see twice the message about my NIC being assigned an IP 
address by DHCP, one right after another, which wasn't the case before 
simpleinit (the card appears to be working fine).
Things that I had to do by myself:
a) edit lilo.conf to accomodate devfs, because I agreed to use devfs for 
/dev during the update; later I recast the kernel to load devfs 
automatically, and threw out the append="..." line from lilo.conf;
b) cast coreutils;
c) recast gdm2 with "-c -r" ot make it install a runlevel 5 script;
d) restore my default runlevel 5 by editing /etc/sysconfig/init;
e) add the following to devfsd.conf (after 
http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/dsp_devfsd.txt):
   # Fix permissions for sound devices
   REGISTER        sound/.*                PERMISSIONS     
root.audio      0660
All the services start and everything seems to be fine. I didn't have 
nfs-utils so on every boot I get a correct message about no provider for 
portmap. I've cast nfs-utils, will see how this works out, but there 
should be no problem.
ALl in all, this was *way* less painful than I imagined, extremely nice 
and solid piece of work guys!
Thank you!

Sergey.