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Hi, Walter. |
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:09:46AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Dale wrote |
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> > I think mdev has shown it can be fixed. Given time, it just may replace |
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> > udev then the udev dev can screw up his own stuff on not bother other |
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> > distros. I'm giving mdev some thought here. I want /usr on LVM which |
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> > means it has to be separate. |
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> Sorry, in lste-breaking news, it looks like udev is a mandatory |
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> dependancy for lvm2. No udev ==> No lvm2 |
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I can mount and use my lvm2 partitions under mdev. As I said, I don't |
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yet know whether lvm2's full functionality is available. |
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I suspect there'll be quite a few packages which list udev as a |
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dependency, yet work well enough under mdev. |
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> Can you run a test for me? What happens when you... |
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> 1) insert the line |
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> sys-fs/udev |
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> into /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> 2) execute "emerge -pv system" |
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> 3) execute "emerge -pv world" |
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> 4) Remember to remove the "sys-fs/udev" line from package.mask<G> |
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> I expect that you should get an error message about not being able to |
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> emerge lvm2 due to udev being masked. This is something I intend to add |
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> to the instructions, so people can check ahead of time whether their |
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> particular setup is able to run without udev. |
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The solution to this, ugly though it might be, is to leave udev in the |
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system so as to allow these other packages to be merged. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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