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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udevinfo - where is it
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:03:10 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> On 23 Oct, Justin wrote:
> 
> > udev has some problem with upgrading and loosing functions. I
> > noticed this a while ago. But all udev function like udevinfo,
> > udevmonitor are symlinks to udevadm. You can get all
> > functionalities with "udevadm info/monitor" etc.
> > 
> > http://www.portagefilelist.de
> 
> 
> Many thanks to all of you who helped.
> 
> (just a note: the symlinks are not installed automatically here)
> 
> Helmut.
> 

Being curious and learning I didn't have the udevinfo symlink, I
created it and ran it:

# ( cd /sbin ; ln -s udevadm udevinfo )
# udevinfo
the program '/bin/bash' called 'udevinfo', it should use 'udevadm info
<options>', this will stop working in a future release missing option

I understand this to mean that the symlinks are obsolete and are being
deleted by newer ebuilds.