From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiQRv-0005tf-78 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E7A921C06A; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601DE21C026 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so26409854wgb.10 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:59:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w2c0f74gRUOSD+7ZNyEvjO7N37zJxfSmdMelUHO2qG0=; b=F3Fg1fRjCCo2/ruwZKeBQ9xOQcD/lsc/XBaFxIwvxt9JN3w5k4u5R6xTD5DsI7uK4o abCRtf6Yzb6wJpudv54QoQEGtuzckDhypE0pSm9pMnv6bPrEgnmnHc9pYz6BHKpOtmbQ xYwHwfa1ruBQBA4DonJ3VsRGxE9MPiziKtGNc= Received: by 10.227.204.146 with SMTP id fm18mr25468822wbb.7.1325681957406; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:59:17 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: arunissatan@gmail.com Received: by 10.223.98.201 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:58:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120103095157.GC1961@waltdnes.org> References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120103095157.GC1961@waltdnes.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:28:57 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aYMoSRakDf7LGhEUY2JJ7MMwFzc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4aa98f2f-172b-43b4-9f98-a987972284b7 X-Archives-Hash: 7a8cfa92868f4537c8553904b932d9bc On 3 January 2012 15:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote > >> I see three options: >> >> 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who >> has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs >> of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for >> gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we >> migrate everything, nothing else would work. >> >> 2) Combine the sbin and bin directories both =A0on the root >> filesystem and in /usr by moving things from /sbin to /bin and /usr/sbin >> to /usr/bin. >> >> 3) Try to maintain =A0things the way they are as long as possible. > > =A04) Following pointers from Zac Medico and others, I've managed to get > Gentoo running with busybox's mdev, instead of udev. =A0See > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5= f0.xml > Executive summary... look Ma; no udev! Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that it might. --=20 Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)