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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, "flameeyes@g.o" <flameeyes@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:45:15
Message-Id: CAHcsgXQKRSomdwtpmZLi7rKfQQ45HnsUZL8P4RkC=w00VH=rfw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by William Hubbs
1 Tinderbox will help you there.
2
3 On Thursday, July 12, 2012, William Hubbs wrote:
4
5 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
6 > > Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
7 > > > I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything currently
8 > > > in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
9 > >
10 > > Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it under p.mask
11 > > until everything is using some common code — otherwise things _will_
12 > break.
13 >
14 > Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it is
15 > possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev if
16 > that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
17 >
18 > My concern about p.mask is things tend to die there. How will we know
19 > for sure when there will not be any breakages without putting it in
20 > ~arch to see what breaks?
21 >
22 > William
23 >
24 >