As of filesystem-2012.6-2 the folders /var/run and /var/lock will be replaced by symlinks to /run and /run/lock, respectively.
On most systems this is already the case, as initscripts create the
symlinks on boot. However, these symlinks are not owned by any
package, which is what we are fixing with this upgrade.
If the symlinks are already in place on your system (which should be
the case for most people), then you can simply perform
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem && pacman -S filesystem --force
Otherwise, if /var/run or /var/lock are directories (e.g. if you are using systemd and never booted with initscripts) you need to delete the directories before performing the update. As these directories are used at runtime, it is recommended to shutdown any background tasks before performing
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem && rm -rf /var/run /var/lock && \
pacman -S filesystem
Followed by a reboot before using the system again.
Note: In general, it is strongly advised to avoid the --force switch as it is not safe. However, in this particular case it is safe, and suggested to avoid having to manually delete the /var/run or /var/lock symlinks.
Lastly, on upgrading filesystem users of kernels prior to linux-3.4 will get a warning about permissions on /sys. This is nothing to worry about, as of linux-3.4 the permissions will be 555, and this upgrade reflects this in the filesystem package.
For the past six months, pacman's package verification features were turned off
by default while we were figuring out the details of our public-key
infrastructure.
They have finally been enabled in pacman-4.0.3-2; when you upgrade, you will be
prompted to run:
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux
This sets up a local keyring for pacman, and populates it with the data needed
to authenticate official packages. This includes five master keys used to
authenticate Arch Linux packagers (developers and trusted users), so you do not
need to know who joins or leaves the team: you only have to ...
systemd and udev have been merged upstream. We will still ship them in separate
packages. However, in order to keep things simple, udev will now be part of a package
called systemd-tools. This package contains several other standalone tools which
can be used without systemd. The astute reader will note that this also means
the entirety of systemd is available in the core repository.
Please replace udev with systemd-tools when prompted. If you upgrade the linux
package at the same time, you may see an error during initramfs creation that
the udev hook is not found. After the upgrade completes ...
netcfg 2.8.2 has been moved to [core]. It has been six months since
netcfg had an update, so it accumulated quite some changes. Here is a
shortlist.
- Configuration has moved out of
rc.conf. Please move your
configuration to /etc/conf.d/netcfg.
- Connection types ending in
-old, -dbus and -iproute are
discontinued. Remove the suffix if you still have it: you didn't need
it.
- Systemd is now supported for single profile, multiple profile,
automatic wired and automatic wireless connections.
- For your basic wifi needs, you can now use the bundled
wifi-menu
tool. It is a dialog ...
PHP has been updated to its latest major release 5.4. The upstream
changelog can be found at php.net/ChangeLog-5.php, a detailed
migration guide is at php.net/migration54. In addition to this the following packaging changes have been made:
- The Suhosin patch and extension have been removed. Learn more about
the reasoning behind this decision at
pierre-schmitz.com/php-5-4-1-in-suhosin-out/
If you had used the suhosin extension before remove the php-suhosin
package as it is no longer compatible with PHP 5.4.
- Note that the extension API has been changed. If you are using any
third party extensions ...