[arch-dev-public] [signoffs] openvpn, mkinitcpio, cryptsetup, initscripts

[Gerhard Brauer]

Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 21:38 +0300 schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 20:44, Gerhard Brauer<gerhard.brauer at web.de> wrote:
> >
> > The initscripts 2009.07-3 are not really a MUST,  we use currently a
> > patched version of 2009.03-2 on the iso/images.
> 
> IMO using any package specifically patched for iso image is not a good idea.

Generally you're right, but this package contains only this commit:
http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=commit;h=92cbc62e1c1b22c6cc251628e8d51a45607998b6

We prevent only that the hwclock is changed by rc.shutdown after the
installer has set the time correctly. Without this patch UTC bios clock
users will flood us with bugreports ;-)
A LiveCd has never, never, ever to change anything on users hardware...

Gerhard