On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hey all, the libudev rebuild isn't really all that interesting, but it's > the trigger for moving a bunch of things to core, including systemd. > Since we're doing a replacement of udev in that move, it's possible > that, should the upgrade coincide with a kernel update, you'll be > missing your udev hooks at mkinitcpio runtime. I'm thinking of posting a > news item explaining the replacement and to warn people that they'll > need to rerun mkinitcpio before rebooting. I don't plan to move this > until a little later in the week, but I'm posting this early for > comments and criticism. > > Cheers, > Dave > > -----------8<------------------------ > > systemd-tools Replaces Udev > > The release of systemd 183 signifies the first release wherein systemd > and udev share the same upstream code repository. In order to ease > maintenance on the Arch Linux side, we've created a package called > systemd-tools which includes several of systemd's standalone tools, > including the entirety of the udev package. The astute reader will note > that this also means the entirety of systemd is available in the core > repository. > > Upon upgrade, you will be prompted to replace udev with systemd-tools. If an > upgrade of the linux package occurs at the same time, you may see an error > during initramfs creation that the udev hook was not found. After the upgrade > has completed, please rerun 'mkinitcpio -p linux' to ensure that a bootable > image is created for the newly installed kernel. >
ack? nak? would like to move this today.
