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 C7DA01381F3 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBE37E0B7A; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48F1E0AD3 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2AD4F805B for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:12:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=WA2KDtkjKj5OtvJrfwi56JWWfwQ=; b=n3mxq5Uub1kE Pzf9vobjGjC+z2bbFj+vAYuldE29G++CpU9ssR7Nn/+dLDSnNO7io/CCavdEvTS/ AgRJTkF/HAARYUk+w53heoaCZCB8YlOV8DTMljbGHMNMuPXz13Kbu+Xd7n1e8Fn7 W+7/wAqWUq/jLF688X9eM1b6v8taCfY= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1485B4F8057 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52062E00.1000604@libertytrek.org> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:11:44 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 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> <20130801194318.769d823d@digimed.co.uk> <51FFB59B.8010001@libertytrek.org> <20130805211838.2d2e2ef3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5205E470.60405@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5205E470.60405@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ae74748b-3257-41be-a201-1669035ec9d0 X-Archives-Hash: 87cc77f8965345cc0cc8fa0245c10ff3 On 2013-08-10 2:57 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/08/13 23:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>>> But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev >>>> now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev >>>> because eudev hadn't been updated (on ~amd64). >>> >>> Can you elaborate on what this update was that forced you to go back to >>> regular udev? >> >> I can't remember what it was now, and it may have been avoidable by >> making virtual/udev-206 (or whichever version it was that needed a higher >> udev version than eudev could provide). It's moot now as eudev has been >> updated and portage is happy again, but it would be a concern if this >> happened regularly. > > I expect it to happen around every new udev release that causes slight > incompability; the default of the virtual/udev, sys-fs/udev, doesn't > have to wait for the alternative providers. And thanks for the heads up Samuli. I always emerge -pvuDN world and look very carefully at the results, and I also wait at least 2 or 3 days before installing any system critical updates (has saved me headaches more than once). Ok, here goes... ;)