[arch-dev-public] News item: vc/* to tty* transition

[Daniel Isenmann]

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> Datum: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:51:42 +1000
> Von: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> An: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development <arch-dev-public at 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

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