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Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

[SOLVED] Is gen-init-cpio going for deprecation?

On my system pacman -Qdt outputs:

$ pacman -Qdt
gen-init-cpio 2.6.36-1

which is not needed for any other package (according to pacman -Sii). I assume it was pulled in as a dep for mknitcpio, but now it is not even an optdep. Is this package deprecated and if so, what replaces it?

Last edited by Leonid.I (2011-07-15 00:02:18)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Is gen-init-cpio going for deprecation?

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 20824.html
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.

Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

Re: [SOLVED] Is gen-init-cpio going for deprecation?

Ahh, thanks

Apparently I didn't pay enough attention to [arch-dev] bback in June...

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