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 1RRyUZ-0007BE-GT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:54:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE27B21C076; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E2A21C04F for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl6 with SMTP id l6so4725524yen.40 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:53:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SQdzPe1zb8xp/hSvG8fslROmwQjngQf5iaVxsj58h5g=; b=vkasvS8KzFK9N//U3BumX6HDHXOx0yEOu2jXduChROMfuTDhmryKH9Vwg8Q5yRAwXR lKSEm2hr9i5WblVZFYrn7hA/REymGjBnPacO5QVegkdlR9Yf7zW6B8o2OMEghRBWV4Qq UmH6IMWzy1lkzdFxnQyjiHORrvh0lnUXpiIYM= Received: by 10.236.200.130 with SMTP id z2mr13038966yhn.25.1321761235091; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o50sm7996857yhl.9.2011.11.19.19.53.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:53:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EC879CE.5000202@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:53:50 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/ References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 466e0390-3de6-4df3-82bf-b0a449237a7b X-Archives-Hash: 4955a7d6b4f0d6ceaa71061681ed8fa4 Pandu Poluan wrote: > So, any progress/updates on the attempt to replace udev with busybox's mdev? > > As for my case, it's working well on XenServer and VMware ESX / > vSphere (haven't found the time to test a VirtualBox installation > yet). > > Except for one annoyance: > > Now, I've done the steps put forth by waltdnes here: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/242563 > > ... but every "eix-sync&& emerge -avuD @world" finds me having to > re-edit /usr/portage/virtual/dev-manager/dev-manager-0.ebuild, or else > portage wants to emerge sys-apps/makedev and sys-fs/static-dev > > Is there a way to 'force' portage to use the edited > dev-manager-0.ebuild and not the original version pulled in by > eix-sync? > > Rgds, Question: Is this going to be added to the shiney new Gentoo wiki at some point? The wiki needs some more content for sure. ;-) I didn't know if ya'll had thought of this before or not. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!