On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:19:13PM +0100, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) wrote:

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM Morten Linderud wrote:

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# First proposal

To ensure we are not breaking systems I'm wondering if adding a `mkinitcpio>=38` dependency to all the affected packages would work. This would be a temporary measure and removed after a month (or something).

* systemd * mdadm * lvm2 * cryptsetup

I think conflicts would be more appropriate here. If you make the new systemd etc. conflict with the old mkinitcpio<38 and make the new mkinitcpio conflict with the old systemd etc., then this would ensure you can't get stuck without the hooks, but it won't force installation of mkinitcpio.

Love it, this is a much better idea then what I had in mind :) -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

Yo, mkinitcpio v38 has been released and I made a personal test setup with the changes and everything seems to work fine on my end. To make sure we are limiting breakage I propose the following news item to go along with the update. Please note I'll insert the relevant versions when the packages hit the testing repositories sometime tomorrow if there are no objections to the current plan. Draft here: https://md.archlinux.org/ixPJWhJXTj6Arlyq3wb9jA # News Item Subject: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode With the release of mkinitcpio v38 several hooks provided from Arch packages has moved to the mkinitcpio upstream. The moved hooks are systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev. To ensure we are not breaking the boot of users we have introduced temporary conflicts into the respective packages to prevent you from installing packages that are no longer compatible. The following packages needs to be installed together: * mkinitcpio 38-1 * systemd xxxx * lvm2 xxxx * mdadm xxxx * cryptsetup xxxx Please note the `mkinitcpio` flag `--microcode` has been deprecated in favour of a new `microcode` hook. This also allows you to drop the mircocode `initrd` lines from your boot configuration as they are now included in your initramfs. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 02:07:20PM +0100, Morten Linderud wrote:

Please note I'll insert the relevant versions when the packages hit the testing repositories sometime tomorrow if there are no objections to the current plan.

I've packaged up the changes to the testing repositories now :) -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16