From version 207 on, systemd will not apply the settings from /etc/sysctl.conf
anymore: it will only apply those from /etc/sysctl.d/*
. Since the settings of our /etc/sysctl.conf
shipped by procps-ng have become kernel defaults anyway, we have decided to deprecate this file.
Upon upgrading to procps-ng-3.3.8-3, you will be prompted to move any changes you made to /etc/sysctl.conf
under /etc/sysctl.d
. The easiest way to do this is to run:
pacman -Syu
mv /etc/sysctl.conf.pacsave /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
If you never customized /etc/sysctl.conf
, you have nothing to do.
PHP 5.5 is finally available in our [extra] repository. The migration guide includes information about changes from version 5.4; a detailed list can be found in the PHP Changelog.
The APC package will be replaced by APCu. APCu only provides user data caching. For opcode caching use the new opcache extension. Alternatively we provide a development version of XCache which includes both, an opcode and user data cache.
Most applications will run without modifications, but watch out for deprecation warnings that fill up your log files.
TeXLive 2013 packages will be available soon in [extra]
: users upgrading from TeXLive 2012
will likely encounter the following error message when trying to use a
TeX engine (like latex, xelatex, luatex):
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
You can recognize such a situation in the pacman output during installation:
>>> texlive: recreating all formats...
/usr/bin/fmtutil: line 395: /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
done.
To solve the situation, the simplest solution if you did not do any
changes to files in /etc/texmf
, is to overwrite ...
During your next update, you will get a error message like:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem
The update merges all binaries into a unified /usr/bin directory. This
step removes a distinction that has been meaningless for Arch systems
and simplifies package maintenance for the development team. See this post for more explanation of the reasoning behind this change.
The following instructions will ensure a safe update:
1) Fix any non-official packages with files in /bin, /sbin or /usr/sbin
to put those files in /usr/bin. The list of packages that are ...
Meet netctl: a profile based networking CLI using systemd.
In the near future, the old netcfg will be removed from [core]
. Anyone
using it is urged to move to netctl. Migration is a manual process
during which you might not have access to the Internet, so take care
and read the man pages (netctl(1), netctl.profile(5) and
netctl.special(7)).
The design of netctl is so that systemd enthusiasts will appreciate
its usage and netcfg users will be familiar with its profile files.
Shipped with netctl comes a ncurses-based wifi connection assistant
called wifi-menu.
As you install netctl ...