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On 25/09/14 18:25, James wrote: |
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> Ok, |
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> So I have used eudev before, without issue before. Things are moving along |
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> so now I see an udev-215 upgrade to udev-261 on a system running lxde. |
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> I intend to migrate this system to lxqt in the next few weeks, after |
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> I build up a new workstation. |
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> So changing from udev-215 to eudev-1.10-r2 is as simple as |
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> unmerging the former and emerging the latter ? The sytem |
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> is not tweaked very much and still running a 3.13.6 kernel, for now. |
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> Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? |
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no support for kernel side predictable interface names where the naming |
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should |
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*really* be happening, eudev will always rename your interfaces with or |
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without USE="rule-generator" |
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to be explicit, eudev will ignore /lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-net-ifname.hwdb, |
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eudev will rename interfaces |
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marked as predictable by the kernel metadata, as in, eudev doesn't |
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contain this commit: |
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http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/network/99-default.link?id=04b67d49254d956d31bcfe80340fb9df7ed332d3 |
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in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level |
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with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all |
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eudev is really useful only for sys-libs/musl users at this time, but |
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you are free to experiment with it! |
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- Samuli |