Allan McRae schrieb:
I suppose we need a news item for this so here is a draft:
[draft] Transition from vc/* to tty* standard
Wrong title. It should be along the lines of "/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, they have now been removed. The vc/*->tty* transition is just the most problematic.
The initscripts 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 will be automatically handled by pacman. The original /etc/inittab file is saved as /etc/inittab.pacsave. However, it is important that all users check the changes made to this file (and even better, completely merge the .pacnew file).
It should be made clearer what happens: package/inittab -> inittab.pacnew system/inittab -> inittab.pacsave system/inittab --sed--> inittab Also, I really forgot to check it carefully: Do you have a "if [ -f /etc/inittab.pacnew ]" around the whole block that modifies the inittab?