[arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...

[Armando M. Baratti]

Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Xavier schrieb:
>>> Unfortunately we can no longer check the cvs repo afaik.
>>> We cannot see earlier than April 2008 :
>>> http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/udev/trunk/PKGBUILD?view=log
>>>
>>> I am also curious to know how did that file stay. Why wasn't it
>>> tracked and removed by pacman ?
>> The old cvs-arch and cvs-core are still around somewhere, but not public.
>>
>>
> 
> So since we still have no information about that
> /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules file, it seems it could potentially be on
> all old arch systems (2007 or older).
> Should the kernel post_upgrade either display a warning or just remove
> that file automatically ?
> A warning could be safer if a user used this file for custom rules.
> 

My current Arch Linux was (re)installed last time in 2005 and only 
updated after that.  I don't have /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules .
I must have removed it manually.

I think some time ago there was an announcement or discussion about this 
on this list, but I'm not sure.



Armando