On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:

Allan McRae (2009-08-01 22:33):

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Hi all,

Getting around to this again....

[draft] /dev layour 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, which has now been removed.

The most obvious change from a users perspective is the vc/*->tty* transition.  The initscripts-2007.08 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 change will be automatically handled by pacman.  The original /etc/inittab file is saved as /etc/inittab.pacsave.  To be clear:

package /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacnew (if needed) system /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacsave system /etc/inittab --sed--> inittab

Make sure to check these files after the update and do any merging that is required. [/draft]

Finally, are we going to do a quick update to initscripts and filesystem before this is moved? There have been a few patches push to get for these.  I can do that tomorrow if people agree?

Allan

As someone has already mentioned, it would be nice to mention the reasons for this (vc/*->tty*) change to please curious users... Why is this needed? Are /dev/vc/* going away?

It's in the first paragraph