From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5521381F3 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 107CDE0B3F; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF42AE0B38 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.169.143.54] (85-76-6-90-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.6.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87D6233EA66 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51FADC32.4030309@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:07:46 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130716 Thunderbird/17.0.7 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] Moving from old udev to eudev References: <51FA8CB6.60000@libertytrek.org> <51FAD4A0.2040202@gentoo.org> <51FAD7FE.1030101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51FAD7FE.1030101@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3496bc53-476c-445a-ad12-224177153d29 X-Archives-Hash: de25a14d9092f31249a10f8d430d9c43 On 02/08/13 00:49, Dale wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 01/08/13 19:28, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs >>> systemd thread. >>> >>> I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, >>> debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. >>> >>> I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me >>> find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to eudev. >>> >>> The eudev project page is sparse, to say the least. >>> >>> Anyone? >>> >> >> First of all, eudev only has IUSE="rule-generator" that is backported >> from udev-171. >> It's otherwise same in users point of view with sys-fs/udev, except >> sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and the code forwarding from >> upstream is not very reliable process. >> Futhermore sys-fs/udev is not 'old' but it's the new one and will be >> the default for OpenRC for long as OpenRC is in Portage. >> I don't want to bash anything or anybody but sys-fs/eudev as-is in the >> Portage is currently useless and a bit buggy. >> >> > > That's odd. I been using eudev since like the second version that came > out and have had zero issues with it. Ask anyone here, if it had a > problem, I'd be found it by now. lol Then you haven't been following. It's multiple issues per week, if not even day. And like said, you don't gain anything by using sys-fs/eudev. The package is useless.