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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:15:25
Message-Id: 7573e9640608251406o2f8e58d8t3c4aebc4622c2ec2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev by Mick
1 On 8/25/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Friday 25 August 2006 10:50, Richard Fish wrote:
3 > > > I remember some discussion about hotplug/coldplug and if coldplug makes
4 > > > sense at all.
5 > >
6 > > Coldplug is dead and gone, usurped by udev.
7 >
8 > I know what you're saying, but I seem to still have coldplug in my boot
9 > runlevel and of course it kicks in every time I boot. I have not noticed any
10 > errors. Shouldn't it have been removed automatically through the baselayout
11 > and udev updates?
12
13 Yeah, udev >= 089 blocks coldplug, so the init script should have been
14 removed, assuming you have upgraded to udev >= 089.
15
16 But perhaps you don't have /etc/init.d in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK? In
17 this case, portage will consider the init scripts to be configuration
18 files, and will not remove them when the associated package is
19 removed.
20
21 carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT
22 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
23 /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind"
24 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
25 /etc/init.d /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
26 /etc/terminfo"
27
28 -Richard
29 --
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