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 43AEE13838B for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2CE5E0ACE; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72D6AE0A82 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (mobile-internet-bceeb2-119.dhcp.inet.fi [188.238.178.119]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4466933F8F9 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <54245C36.50507@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:17:26 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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] udev (viable) alternatives ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8deeecfa-dcc7-46cb-8142-ff44329ab046 X-Archives-Hash: 1199e36908dcea3d4f3b8d88fefa32ad On 25/09/14 18:25, James wrote: > Ok, > > So I have used eudev before, without issue before. Things are moving along > so now I see an udev-215 upgrade to udev-261 on a system running lxde. > I intend to migrate this system to lxqt in the next few weeks, after > I build up a new workstation. > > So changing from udev-215 to eudev-1.10-r2 is as simple as > unmerging the former and emerging the latter ? The sytem > is not tweaked very much and still running a 3.13.6 kernel, for now. > > > Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? no support for kernel side predictable interface names where the naming should *really* be happening, eudev will always rename your interfaces with or without USE="rule-generator" to be explicit, eudev will ignore /lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-net-ifname.hwdb, eudev will rename interfaces marked as predictable by the kernel metadata, as in, eudev doesn't contain this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/network/99-default.link?id=04b67d49254d956d31bcfe80340fb9df7ed332d3 in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all eudev is really useful only for sys-libs/musl users at this time, but you are free to experiment with it! - Samuli