Hi guys, I put up the next prerelease of util-linux in case someone wants to play around:
<https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz> <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz> Same warnings apply as to rc1: - mountpoint will conflict with sysvinit (I'll propose moving this from sysvinit to util-linux when we have a final release); and - libmount is enabled even though it will probably not be in the final version. Cheers, Tom On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > A new and very exciting release of util-linux is imminent. Even though > we only have an -rc1 so far, I thought it might be worthwhile to put > it out there so people can try it out (in case we want anything fixed > before the final release): > > <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz> > <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz> > > I enabled libmount support in mount, but this will probably be > reverted before the final release unless we have good reason to > believe it to be safe. > > Major changes: > > - agetty gets most of the features from mingetty. > - dmesg gets lots of new filtering capabilities > - mountpoint moves here from sysvinit (we probably have to manually > remove it from the sysvinit package). > > We still patch hwclock to move the adjustment file from /etc to /var. > I'm not a big fan of this, and hope to have a backwards compatible > patch to sort things out before 2.21 is released. > > Cheers, > > Tom > > > Util-linux 2.20 Release Notes > ============================= > > Release highlights > ------------------ > > agetty(8): > - mingetty features have been merged to agetty > > chrt(1), taskset(1): > - supports new command line option "--all-tasks" to set or retrieve the > scheduling attributes of all the tasks (threads) for a given PID > > dmesg(1): > - supports new command line options: --clear, --console-on, --console-off, > --ctime, --decode, --facility=<list>, --level=<list>, --show-delta, > --notime, --kernel and --userspace > > fdisk(8): > - improved dialogs to be more user-friendly > > findmnt(8), partx(8), lsblk(8) > - support new command line option "--pairs" to enable key="value" > output format > > findmnt(8): > - supports new command line options "--poll" and "--timeout" to monitor > /proc/self/mountinfo changes > > ionice(1): > - supports human-readable scheduling class names, for example: > ionice -c best-effort $PID > > kill(1): > - supports new command line option "-q <sigval>" to use sigqueue(2) > - supports real-time signals in formats RT<n>, RTMIN+<n> and RTMAX-<n> > > libmount: > - the API officially stable > > lsblk(8): > - supports new columns: > TYPE - device type > RQ-SIZE - queue request size > STATE - device state (e.g. running, suspended) > DALIGN - discard alignment offset > DISC-GRAN - discard granularity > DISC-MAX - discard max bytes > DISC-ZERO - discard zeroes data > - supports new command line option "-D" to print device discard topology > > lscpu(8): > - improved support for s390 boxes > > mkfs.minix: > - supports minix version 3 > > mountpoint(1): > - this NEW COMMAND is libmount based re-implementation of mountpoint(1) from > sysvinit suite > > simpleinit: > - this set of deprecated utils has been REMOVED > > Wall(1): > - support new command line option "--timeout" to specify write timeout to > terminals in seconds. > > It's not supported to link with external (e.g. from e2fsprogs) libblkid and > libuuid any more. >
