On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like > configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way > to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? Sure: <http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/refs/tags>. If you have specific questions, I'd be happy to answer. The main difference between then and now is that we used to default to the locale being "en_US.UTF-8" if nothing is set, but now we fall back to "C". At some point we were also generating /etc/profiles.d/locale.sh dynamically at every boot. How we do vconsole now (and you can find the other ones there easily too): <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/vconsole/vconsole-setup.c> -t
