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On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote |
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> I see three options: |
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> 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who |
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> has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs |
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> of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for |
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> gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we |
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> migrate everything, nothing else would work. |
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> 2) Combine the sbin and bin directories both on the root |
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> filesystem and in /usr by moving things from /sbin to /bin and /usr/sbin |
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> to /usr/bin. |
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> 3) Try to maintain things the way they are as long as possible. |
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4) Following pointers from Zac Medico and others, I've managed to get |
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Gentoo running with busybox's mdev, instead of udev. See |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5f0.xml |
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Executive summary... look Ma; no udev! |
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In the instructions there, I've set up a revised dev-manager ebuild in |
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an overlay. I've requested the changes to be incorporated into the |
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official ebuild and it appears to have been accepted. See... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395319 |
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It should be rolled out eventually, and the overlay won't be necessary. |
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I think I've found one item so far that requires udev. My laptop's |
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graphics chip needs a binary blob from radeon-ucode. That binary blob, |
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in turn, requires the presence of /usr/lib/libudev.so.0 which is a |
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symlink to /usr/lib/libudev.so.0.9.3 (which is also required). I can |
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emerge udev |
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move or copy the 2 files over to /root |
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unmerge udev |
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move or copy the 2 files from /root to /usr/lib/ |
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Note that /usr/lib/ is a symlink to /usr/lib64 on my 64-bit gentoo |
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> Please discuss; I want to hear what you think. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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