On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dave Reisner
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce the release of mkinitcpio 0.7.3. This is largely a maintenance release with a number of bugfixes and cleanups. I've highlighted the new features and some of the bug fixes below, followed by the full shortlog.
Thanks to Sebastien Luttringer and Florian Pritz for their contributions in this release.
Please test and signoff.
Regards, Dave
Features: -------------------------------------- - The 'keymap' and 'consolefont' hooks now source /etc/rc.conf instead of parsing the file. This allows for better support by non-sysvinit init systems. Implements FS#24685. - Modules in build hooks as well as in the MODULES array of mkinitcpio.conf can be suffixed with a '?' character. If the module is not found, it's considerd a soft failure and no error is reported. Implements FS#25096. - Early userspace now supports dropping to a shell before or after mounting the root device. The kernel commandline syntax leverages the 'break' variable with the values 'premount' and 'postmount'. The former behavior remains unchanged, and is a synonym for 'premount'. - Introduce a new 'virtio' build hook for use with QEMU.
Bugfixes: -------------------------------------- - Properly delimit data from /sys to work around modalias files with bad data. Fixes FS#25450. - Compare constants to variable values, rather than the reverse. This prevents an error on parsing grub2 ROOT_IMAGE variables. Fixes FS#26119. - Mount /run with exec permissions. This is done to mirror initscripts. - Perform path lookup for binaries with respect to a given basedir instead of the real root. - Insist that /dev and /proc be mounted at runtime. Required for usage of bash's process substitutions. - Explicitly create the buildroot rather than letting it be created by the first run build hook. This avoids errors when HOOKS is empty, as seen in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=966344.
Dave Reisner (29): mkinitcpio: add --quiet to bsdcpio without -v functions: restore verbose feedback to add_module autodetect: add verbose feedback on autodetect success mkinitcpio: reference -h on failed option parsing install/consolefont: cleanup and refactor keymap/consolefont: source rc.conf properly from $BASEDIR keymap: simplify unicode detection cleanup and bashify install hooks base: remove superfluous leading / functions: allow ignoring errors on module addition functions: refactor get_{base,dir}name functions: perform path lookup for binaries if needed functions: specify the delimiter to xargs ensure local scoping of variables mkinitcpio: simplify setting of SKIPHOOKS mkinitcpio: fix whitespace errors in error messages mkinitcpio: explicitly create $BUILDROOT mkinitcpio: keep going even when a hook isn't found mkinitcpio: insist that /dev and /proc be mounted init: support breaks before and after mounting root init: allow /run to be mounted with exec perms lsinitcpio: disable color when stdout isn't a tty lsinitcpio: follow symlinks only when necessary functions: fix output order in _add_symlink use correct variable to reference compression method init_functions: use constants on LHS of tests remove duplicate "error" in error message example.preset: update for newer style syntax mkinitcpio: avoid creating savelist in main loop
Florian Pritz (2): generate VERSION only for the tarball harden version generation
Sebastien Luttringer (1): Add a virtio hook
Signoff both.