On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for comments. I am going to push this to the news today > > [draft] > /dev layout 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. With this update, it is important that > initscripts (2009.07-3), filesystem (2009.07-1), udev (141-5) and syslog-ng > (3.0.3-2) are all updated together. > > 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. Any users who have modified the /etc/securetty file should make > sure to merge that file also. > [/draft] > > > I will move these packages without releasing a new filesystem and > initscripts package so we can definitely get them on the next installer. As > far as I can tell, there is nothing to stop these packages moving and the > extra fixes in git are just "nice to haves" and not "must haves". This way > we can release the initscript and filesystem changes when needed and put > them through the signoff procedure separately. > > The actually move will occur after ~24 hours of posting the new item. > > Allan > > >
The udev in testing was updated. We need to signoff the new version before moving this stuff to core.
