Eric Bélanger wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote:
Eric Bélanger wrote:
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.
Damn... I was wanting to move this before udev was updated. Nevermind.
Allan
As there are some issues with udev-145-1 that will take time to
settle, you could still do this transition. Just update the udev in
core manually. In svn, manually apply the 141-5 modifications to
repos/core-i686 and repos/core-x86_64 then commit. On gerolde, copy
the udev 141-5 packages from /srv/package-cleanup to your staging
dir.
I was going to do that when I get home from work tonight. I figured that
we could not have a news item up then do nothing about it...
Allan
