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 04D93138CA2 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21E88E0881; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com (mail-wg0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDECBE084F for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgso17 with SMTP id o17so178261826wgs.1 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 05:56:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ueN1Ai+dgwQRCY9s6TZ873Wzn4h0bJcABVsnmOOs3To=; b=puECGPRKDSxCC2mMFjszIUWrQqepdL/RLJeYfb6E90mSv9nF6ifkzsT4/G1AFn+AaG Vmoj1LDNicijuxhJYVoNIFN+x5YxJllzQ2kQEbwoOGebMhEjnQq4xDqRjuefQe22tcnR /nmv8BYERXY2ifiJQG9/dthR/swZa9w/juwh6SrBcHpdp/2im+D4kdl58a6M1kaQh7DZ /sDMkePtX/+AQLixFAHSfdhTSYUzqb54b88EwFMAa0gUHUgchJ9y4dRW1GSnvFMPPS8U SK+JeQMtNZX8fLm9/Wio2ZO0ahgxhgufiM5ryLa4gDElVdlHmPF4SLHMcnYJTaKrRlGV cdnw== X-Received: by 10.180.84.65 with SMTP id w1mr24691503wiy.20.1429534610299; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 05:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (105-237-166-99.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.166.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id g5sm27176616wjr.19.2015.04.20.05.56.48 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Apr 2015 05:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5534F78E.10806@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:56:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 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] another old server: what about udev and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS ? References: <5534F657.8030402@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <5534F657.8030402@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 68ea75f8-fc77-47cc-87c0-c5f3b5c69661 X-Archives-Hash: 0a6721c9f5bbcf7a29d562c903d5c84d On 20/04/2015 14:51, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Another > 5 yr server that needs some care. > > sys-fs/udev-151-r4 and a kernel without CONFIG_DEVTMPFS set. > > The old udev blocks openrc etc etc ... > > Aside from: "install from scratch" -> > > what happens if I upgrade udev before booting a kernel with > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS set? > > Problems? Yes, it won't work. And the ebuild will error out. > > I'd like to upgrade udev, then install openrc etc ... before I can drive > there and reboot the box. You intend to drive there anyway and reboot it. Rebuilding udev & openrc will probably take 15 minutes. It's such a little time, why are you trying to save 15 minutes in advance by taking an unknown and risky path? Just do everything on-site, it's safest -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com