[gentoo-user] eudev

[gentoo-user] eudev

[James]

Hello


So, I've been wanting to test eudev for a while now. I found these
instructions in many places, so I have it a whirl:

# emerge -Ca udev 
# emerge -1a eudev 
# etc-update 
# emerge @preserved-rebuild

Problem is I had the 'udev' flag set in the make.conf, so it just
reinstalled udev (216). so I figured I'd better ask about the 
convsion of udev-216 to eudev-1.10-r2  (stable) or if I should
run eudev-2.1.1 ?

Beside also removing the 'udev' flag, do I have any other issues
or caveats? I'd like to also go with manually naming the ethernet
interfaces under eudev; I have not found any specific docs on that
either.

Discussion and Suggestions are most welcome.


James

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev

[Dale]

James wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> So, I've been wanting to test eudev for a while now. I found these
> instructions in many places, so I have it a whirl:
>
> # emerge -Ca udev 
> # emerge -1a eudev 
> # etc-update 
> # emerge @preserved-rebuild
>
> Problem is I had the 'udev' flag set in the make.conf, so it just
> reinstalled udev (216). so I figured I'd better ask about the 
> convsion of udev-216 to eudev-1.10-r2  (stable) or if I should
> run eudev-2.1.1 ?
>
> Beside also removing the 'udev' flag, do I have any other issues
> or caveats? I'd like to also go with manually naming the ethernet
> interfaces under eudev; I have not found any specific docs on that
> either.
>
> Discussion and Suggestions are most welcome.
>
>
> James
>
>


I switched a good while back so this may be a bit fuzzy.  I'm running
eudev-2.1.1 here with no issues.  I don't have anything in my USE flag
about udev and everything I plug in is managed just fine.  I'm pretty
sure your commands above is all I used as well.  I don't recall running
anything outside the norm. 

Basically, after you switch, the OS doesn't see anything different.  On
mine here, even the init scripts have the same name.  I was sort of
expecting them to change from udev to eudev but it didn't. 

If something is pulling udev back in, may want to add the -t option to
emerge and see what is pulling it in. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] Re: eudev

[James]

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Basically, after you switch, the OS doesn't see anything different.  On
> mine here, even the init scripts have the same name.  I was sort of
> expecting them to change from udev to eudev but it didn't. 

Good to know. Any mods to any of those udev-init-scripts or are they the
same_same ?

> If something is pulling udev back in, may want to add the -t option to
> emerge and see what is pulling it in. 

Yea, it was late, I was tired and often premature_alzheimers is not
really premature......

> Dale

thx,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eudev

[Dale]

James wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Basically, after you switch, the OS doesn't see anything different.  On
>> mine here, even the init scripts have the same name.  I was sort of
>> expecting them to change from udev to eudev but it didn't. 
> Good to know. Any mods to any of those udev-init-scripts or are they the
> same_same ?

I think it replaces it but I'm not sure.  I didn't look to see what the
old looked like before switching.  I don't recall it wanting to change
it when I ran dispatch-conf either.  It has been a while back tho. 


>> If something is pulling udev back in, may want to add the -t option to
>> emerge and see what is pulling it in. 
> Yea, it was late, I was tired and often premature_alzheimers is not
> really premature......
>
>> Dale
> thx,
> James
>

I hear you on that.  I think it hits me double at times.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] eudev

[James]

Upon syncing, my system wants to upgrade to eudev.

[blocks B] sys-fs/udev ("sys-fs/udev" is blocking sys-fs/eudev-0)


Not much out there; but I gleaned it is for those
that insist on a separate partition for /var and /usr.
Any other motivating reasons?

equery depends eudev
 * These packages depend on eudev:
virtual/udev-196
(>=sys-fs/eudev-1_beta1[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?
,selinux?,static-libs?])


I really do not want eudev, at this time. I just recovered
a system that is now running sys-fs/udev-196-r1.

I did recently put these into my package.keywords.

=sys-fs/udev-196-r1 ~amd64
=virtual/udev-196 ~amd64
=sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 ~amd64

But I do not want to go to eudev (not till it's sable 
and necessary.

Is this the best (most current) info on setting up udev-196 ?
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev


Some discussion and guidance would be keenly appreciated.


cautiously,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev

[Bryan Gardiner]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:39:59 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Upon syncing, my system wants to upgrade to eudev.
> 
> [blocks B] sys-fs/udev ("sys-fs/udev" is blocking sys-fs/eudev-0)
> 
> 
> Not much out there; but I gleaned it is for those
> that insist on a separate partition for /var and /usr.
> Any other motivating reasons?
> 
> equery depends eudev
>  * These packages depend on eudev:
> virtual/udev-196
> (>=sys-fs/eudev-1_beta1[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?
> ,selinux?,static-libs?])
> 
> 
> I really do not want eudev, at this time. I just recovered
> a system that is now running sys-fs/udev-196-r1.
> 
> I did recently put these into my package.keywords.
> 
> =sys-fs/udev-196-r1 ~amd64
> =virtual/udev-196 ~amd64
> =sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 ~amd64
> 
> But I do not want to go to eudev (not till it's sable 
> and necessary.
> 
> Is this the best (most current) info on setting up udev-196 ?
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev
> 
> 
> Some discussion and guidance would be keenly appreciated.
> 
> 
> cautiously,
> James

Hi James,

My guess is that you've unmasked sys-fs/udev-196 only partially.
Portage tries to calculate the dependencies for it and finds that
something is still missing (e.g. you need to ~amd64 more packages) so
Portage stops with sys-fs/udev and tries to satisfy virtual/udev with
eudev instead.

Try an "emerge -pv =sys-fs/udev-196-r1" and see if that gives any
reason why Portage isn't happy with it.

HTH,
Bryan