[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2

Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 1 01:37:11 EDT 2011


Am Friday 01 July 2011, 07:33:33 schrieb Christian Hesse:
> Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:15:01 +0200:
> > This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to
> > point out two significant changes:
> > 
> > 1) We now have a build() function instead of an install() function - the
> > latter was an unfortunate conflict with the install utility. The hooks
> > in the repository have been adjusted, but backward-compatibility code is
> > in place (a deprecation warning will be printed). All these packages
> > have conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.7).
> > 
> > 2) We now use bsdcpio instead of gen_init_cpio. This obsoletes the
> > gen_init_cpio package and adds a dependency on libarchive. This also
> > speeds up the image generation considerably.
> > 
> > Other changes include massive cleanups and fixes, code refactoring, and
> > changes that should finally make the -b (basedir) option useful.
> > 
> > Please test and sign off.
> 
> Works without problems with LUKS encrypted lvm2.
Works fine with mdadm RAID1
signoff both
greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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