On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> 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.