Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:15:01 +0200:
This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to point out two significant changes:
1) We now have a build() function instead of an install() function - the latter was an unfortunate conflict with the install utility. The hooks in the repository have been adjusted, but backward-compatibility code is in place (a deprecation warning will be printed). All these packages have conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.7).
2) We now use bsdcpio instead of gen_init_cpio. This obsoletes the gen_init_cpio package and adds a dependency on libarchive. This also speeds up the image generation considerably.
Other changes include massive cleanups and fixes, code refactoring, and changes that should finally make the -b (basedir) option useful.
Please test and sign off.
Works without problems with LUKS encrypted lvm2. -- Schoene Gruesse Chris