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Hi all, |
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I'd like to check in and get some education concerning future |
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configuration of my Gentoo machines. Thanks in advance. |
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In the last few days there is a news announcement about needing to |
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change kernel my configuration to enable CONFIG_FHANDLE to support |
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udev-210. I'm currently at udev-208 and virtual/udev-208-r1 so no big |
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deal yet. However reading the news announcement it appears this has |
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more to do with systemd than anything else and I don't use systemd so |
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does/will this effect my machines? |
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NOTE: I have no problem I know about today enabling CONFIG_FHANDLE |
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if it's recommended. |
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That said there's an interesting (if it is to be believed) little |
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rant thread over the last couple of days on LKML about Debian |
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leadership forcing people into systemd. I think the Gentoo devs forked |
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udev to make either mdev or eudev but when it was announced it was too |
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new for me so I just let it go by. Maybe now it's time for me to look |
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into making a change of some type? I see eudev in portage, but not |
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mdev. |
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A (really, really, really) quick scan of the current install docs |
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makes me think sysvinit/OpenRC/udev is still the default for new |
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installs. Is this true? If so why is this kernel change being |
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required? |
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Also, I seem to have virtual/udev installed which says it's about |
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enabling switching between udev & eudev. However there are no files |
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associated with virtual/udev. (equery files virtual/udev returns |
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nothing) It appears I cannot install eudev without removing udev so |
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this seems a big step to take: |
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c2RAID6 ~ # emerge -pvDuN eudev |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild N ] sys-fs/eudev-1.3 USE="gudev introspection modutils |
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openrc rule-generator -doc -hwdb -keymap -kmod (-selinux) -static-libs |
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{-test}" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 1,641 kB |
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[uninstall ] sys-fs/udev-208 USE="acl firmware-loader gudev |
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introspection kmod openrc -doc (-selinux) -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) |
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(-32) (-x32)" |
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[blocks b ] sys-fs/udev ("sys-fs/udev" is blocking sys-fs/eudev-1.3) |
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Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 1,641 kB |
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Conflict: 1 block |
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c2RAID6 ~ # |
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At this point I'm not even sure what my other questions might be as |
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I'm just trying to get my head around what others are using these |
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days. I do have a second Gentoo install on this system on an SSD so |
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(once updated) I could do a switch there as a test. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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