What changed with console fonts?

Yesterday I did an upgrade for the first time in three months. Everything went fine except I lost my lat9-16 console fonts as stated to use in /etc/rc.conf. I just get questionmarks instead, which indicates the font file cannot be found by the system. No panic, I just use default fonts instead. But I want to know what changed from three months ago. Thanks.
Last edited by Abakaba (2009-03-24 14:23:05)

pacman.log will tell you what was updated. It's generally a lot easier to determine which package did something if there are only a few package upgrades, rather than hundreds.

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