OpenRC, the replacement for
Gentoo's current services system (known as baselayout), will be stabilized
on May 8. 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.
You will see an update for sys-apps/baselayout to 2.x and a new package,
sys-apps/openrc. It is recommended that you perform this update as soon as
possible.
After these packages are emerged, it is absolutely critical that you
immediately update your configuration files with dispatch-conf,
etc-update or a similar tool then follow the steps in the OpenRC Migration
Guide.
Failure to follow all of these steps will result in an unbootable
system. If that happens, you will need to boot from a LiveCD or LiveDVD,
mount your root filesystem, chroot
into that environment and follow the above steps.
Christian Faulhammer and William Hubbs contributed this announcement.