Allan McRae wrote:

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]

* If and only if, user touched /etc/securetty (from 'filesystem'), also must be edit manually it again to match /etc/securetty.pacnew, so I think that is more safe to add to the announce mail. * Also note the importance of update all packages 'initscripts' 'filesystem' 'udev' 'syslog-ng' at the same time. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D