[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6.11

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Fri Apr 22 12:04:42 EDT 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Version 0.6.10 was busted, this time everything should be fine (finally).
>
> Thomas Bächler (2):
>      Rewrite parse_cmdline (again)
>      Release version 0.6.11
>
> There is a problem: The new filesystem package was moved to core and
> creates /run, but /run is not usable as it is not a world-writable
> tmpfs. We need this and the new initscripts (which should be released
> soon) in core quickly. Moving mkinitcpio only should suffice for now.
>
> Please sign off quickly.

signoff x86_64

You are right that this is a bit urgent. I thought it would not be,
but some weird setups will hit bugs due to /run being writable and the
tmpfs not mounted: <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23845>.

This can either be fixed by moving this to core or by patching [filesystem].

-t


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