On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 20:31, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Can we tag & package files from git repo at 7a1b906c commit? (i.e. skip the last commit which requires more fixing/testing) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
