Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:44:11PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote

> Busybox is installed as part of the system profile on amd64. You can
> install mdev by doing this:
>
> ln -s /bin/busybox /sbin/mdev

  The official method is to build busybox with the "mdev" USE flag.  That
is the only way that virtual/dev-manager recognizes it, and doesn't try
to pull in udev, instead.  From the ebuild...

RDEPEND="|| (
                sys-fs/udev
                sys-apps/busybox[mdev]
                sys-fs/devfsd
                sys-fs/static-dev
                sys-freebsd/freebsd-sbin
        )"


> There is documentation in the busybox GIT for how to use it:
>
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt

  TOOT!!! (blowing my own horn).  See http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ for
instructions on replacing udev with mdev for simple Gentoo systems.
Hopefully more info will start arriving, allowing more complex systems
to work with mdev.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>