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

Firmicus Firmicus at gmx.net
Sat Oct 10 12:46:48 EDT 2009


Armando M. Baratti a écrit :
> 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.
>
>

It could be that I missed that one, if indeed there was an announcement
about it. My system was first (and last) installed in February 2006.






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