On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Getting around to this again.... > > [draft] > /dev layour cleanup > > The /dev layout has been cleaned up to comply to the device names specified > in the Linux kernel documentation. We had some legacy left from our devfs > days, which has now been removed. > > The most obvious change from a users perspective is the vc/*->tty* > transition. The initscripts-2007.08 update requires adjusting the > /etc/inittab file to refer to tty* instead of vc/*. Due to severe system > breakages if this file is not updated, this change will be automatically > handled by pacman. The original /etc/inittab file is saved as > /etc/inittab.pacsave. To be clear: > > package /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacnew (if needed) > system /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacsave > system /etc/inittab --sed--> inittab > > Make sure to check these files after the update and do any merging that is > required. > [/draft] > > Finally, are we going to do a quick update to initscripts and filesystem > before this is moved? There have been a few patches push to get for these. > I can do that tomorrow if people agree?
It sounds fine - the more recent change for running rc.d scripts under cron has some issues though[1] so I dunno if we want to wait a bit before doing this, or just push it as-is 1: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12251
