On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Dave Reisner d@falconindy.com wrote:

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.

Signoff both. ^_^

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dave Reisner d@falconindy.com wrote:

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.