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Hi everyone, |
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Yes! It is time to finally deprecate eudev! sys-fs/udev now builds |
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under musl! My original purpose for maintaining eudev was because |
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systemd + musl did not play well together when udev was absorbed into |
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the sytemd repo. Now thanks to patches from openembedded, they do, and |
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my original reason for maintaining eudev is no longer valid. So its |
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time to retire eudev. It has served its purpose as a stop-gap. |
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To me, this is a success for musl, and I would like to thank all the |
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developers who have taken musl seriously enough to make this happen :) |
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I am willing to transfer the eudev repo to another organization, but I |
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will not maintain it anymore and Base System doesn't want to either. |
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Let me warn people, to maintain it correctly you MUST become familiar |
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with its internals and watch what systemd is doing upstream to keep up. |
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This is not trivial. I learned a lot from eudev, and it did save musl |
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on gentoo, but there was a period there when it was taking up almost all |
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of my time. If you don't know what you're getting into, you don't want |
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to take on its maintenance. |
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Title: eudev retirement on 2022-01-01 |
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Author: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> |
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Posted: 2021-08-xx |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-fs/eudev |
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sys-fs/udev is becoming the standard provider of udev on non-systemd |
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(e.g. OpenRC) systems. Users of systemd will continue to use the udev |
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services provided by the sys-apps/systemd package itself. |
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The transition should be uneventful in most cases, but please read this |
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item in full to understand some possible corner cases. |
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eudev will be retired and removed from Gentoo on 2022-01-01. We will |
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start masking eudev on 2021-10-01 and give people 3 months to prepare |
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their transition. You should ensure that sys-fs/eudev is not in your |
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world file by running |
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emerge --deselect sys-fs/eudev |
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in order for Portage to replace eudev with sys-fs/udev once the |
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package.mask is in place. We fully support udev on musl, whereas uclibc |
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will still have to rely on eudev before also being removed on 2022-01-01. |
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**WARNING** |
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If you happen to have an INSTALL_MASK with a blanket "*systemd*" glob, |
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you will inevitably break your system. sys-fs/udev contains "systemd" in |
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some of its filenames, hence a blanket filter rule will likely lead to a |
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non-functional udev installation. |
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Rationale |
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The integration of udev into the systemd git repo introduced numerous |
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problems for none-glibc systems, such as musl and uclibc. Several |
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options were considered, and the one chosen was to fork and maintain |
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udev independant of the rest of systemd. This was meant as a stop-gap |
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solution until such time as the problems with systemd on musl had been |
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resolved. This is now the case with patches provided by openembedded, |
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and my original reason for maintaining eudev is no longer relevant. |
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I am willing to transfer eudev to another umbrella organisation or Linux |
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distribution that is willing to continue its maintenance, but |
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maintaining eudev cannot be done purely through proxy-maintaining and |
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requires an understanding of its internals. This is a steep learning |
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curve and must be an earnest effort. For this reason, the Base System |
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project has decided not to support euev as an option going forward. |
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-- |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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