[arch-dev-public] News item: vc/* to tty* transition
I suppose we need a news item for this so here is a draft: [draft] Transition from vc/* to tty* standard With the update to initscripts-2009.07, we are transitioning from the old vc/* style devices to the current standard of tty*. This transition involves updates to the filesystem, initscripts, syslog-ng and udev packages. As always, users should update all packages at the same time rather than individual packages. 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). [/draft] Comments? Allan
On Thursday 23 July 2009 14:51:42 Allan McRae wrote:
Comments?
Sounds fine. Btw: Is there any information about why renaming from vc to tty is useful? -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
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Datum: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:51:42 +1000 Von: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> An: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> Betreff: [arch-dev-public] News item: vc/* to tty* transition
I suppose we need a news item for this so here is a draft:
[draft] Transition from vc/* to tty* standard
With the update to initscripts-2009.07, we are transitioning from the old vc/* style devices to the current standard of tty*. This transition involves updates to the filesystem, initscripts, syslog-ng and udev packages. As always, users should update all packages at the same time rather than individual packages.
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). [/draft]
Comments?
Allan
Sounds fine to me. Daniel -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01
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?
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Allan McRae
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Daniel Isenmann
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Pierre Schmitz
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Thomas Bächler