[arch-general] [RFC] patches to initscripts

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 06.12.2010 11:39, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> While looking through bugs for [core] packages, I notice that there are a
>> large number of bug report for these three packages.  In total they account
>> for ~13% of the bugs in the tracker!
> 
> [...]
> 
>> But given these are some of the uniqueness of Arch, I wonder what we _as a
>> group_ could to do to improve this situation?  Perhaps organize a
>> hack-a-thon on IRC one day?  Or we could advertise for help, with the
>> selection criterion being a git repo provided by the applicant showing they
>> can do stuff?
> 
> As discussed with Allan, here are some patches to initscripts:
> <https://github.com/teg/initscripts-arch>.
> 
> Comments very much welcome.
> 
> I started off with what appeared to me as the low-hanging fruit. Once
> I have had feedback on this I'll have a look at more difficult (or
> invasive) problems.
> 
> My long-term goal is to ease the maintenance burden of initscripts by
> simplifying them and harmonizing them with other distros/projects
> (without, of course, loosing any of their features).

https://github.com/teg/initscripts-arch/commit/b4c804d60d6e8361db3f19bf3a2fa6fb58ee8458

Two short comments about this commit:

1) We need to run vgchange again after rw-mounting everything (without
--sysinit), so monitoring can be set up.
2) mkinitcpio's LVM hook also needs --sysinit.

The rest of the patches are fine.

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