[arch-dev-public] [prerelease] util-linux-2.20-rc2

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi guys,

I put up the next prerelease of util-linux in case someone wants to play around:

<https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>
<https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz>

Same warnings apply as to rc1:

 - mountpoint will conflict with sysvinit (I'll propose moving this
from sysvinit to util-linux when we have a final release); and
 - libmount is enabled even though it will probably not be in the final version.

Cheers,

Tom

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> A new and very exciting release of util-linux is imminent. Even though
> we only have an -rc1 so far, I thought it might be worthwhile to put
> it out there so people can try it out (in case we want anything fixed
> before the final release):
>
> <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>
> <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz>
>
> I enabled libmount support in mount, but this will probably be
> reverted before the final release unless we have good reason to
> believe it to be safe.
>
> Major changes:
>
> - agetty gets most of the features from mingetty.
> - dmesg gets lots of new filtering capabilities
> - mountpoint moves here from sysvinit (we probably have to manually
> remove it from the sysvinit package).
>
> We still patch hwclock to move the adjustment file from /etc to /var.
> I'm not a big fan of this, and hope to have a backwards compatible
> patch to sort things out before 2.21 is released.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
> Util-linux 2.20 Release Notes
> =============================
>
> Release highlights
> ------------------
>
> agetty(8):
>  - mingetty features have been merged to agetty
>
> chrt(1), taskset(1):
>  - supports new command line option "--all-tasks" to set or retrieve the
>   scheduling attributes of all the tasks (threads) for a given PID
>
> dmesg(1):
>  - supports new command line options: --clear, --console-on, --console-off,
>   --ctime, --decode, --facility=<list>, --level=<list>, --show-delta,
>   --notime, --kernel and --userspace
>
> fdisk(8):
>  - improved dialogs to be more user-friendly
>
> findmnt(8), partx(8), lsblk(8)
>  - support new command line option "--pairs" to enable key="value"
>   output format
>
> findmnt(8):
>  - supports new command line options "--poll" and "--timeout" to monitor
>   /proc/self/mountinfo changes
>
> ionice(1):
>  - supports human-readable scheduling class names, for example:
>   ionice -c best-effort $PID
>
> kill(1):
>  - supports new command line option "-q <sigval>" to use sigqueue(2)
>  - supports real-time signals in formats RT<n>, RTMIN+<n> and RTMAX-<n>
>
> libmount:
>  - the API officially stable
>
> lsblk(8):
>  - supports new columns:
>     TYPE      - device type
>     RQ-SIZE   - queue request size
>     STATE     - device state (e.g. running, suspended)
>     DALIGN    - discard alignment offset
>     DISC-GRAN - discard granularity
>     DISC-MAX  - discard max bytes
>     DISC-ZERO - discard zeroes data
>  - supports new command line option "-D" to print device discard topology
>
> lscpu(8):
>  - improved support for s390 boxes
>
> mkfs.minix:
>  - supports minix version 3
>
> mountpoint(1):
>  - this NEW COMMAND is libmount based re-implementation of mountpoint(1) from
>   sysvinit suite
>
> simpleinit:
>  - this set of deprecated utils has been REMOVED
>
> Wall(1):
>  - support new command line option "--timeout" to specify write timeout to
>   terminals in seconds.
>
> It's not supported to link with external (e.g. from e2fsprogs) libblkid and
> libuuid any more.
>