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On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: |
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> > On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: |
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> >>> On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>> Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" |
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> >>>>> mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the |
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> >>>>> same behavior... |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>> I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev update |
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> >>>> was in Feb. so I *guess* not. It seems to be a "udev" thing. That is |
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> >>>> why I mentioned eudev to someone else that was having this issue with a |
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> >>>> server setup. |
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> >>> I'd guess eudev will eventually do the same, although I hope that, it |
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> >>> being a separate codebase, makes it easier to adopt some solution like |
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> >>> the old rule generator, instead of using udev's approach. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> The udev upstream may have its issues, but there's actually a point in |
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> >>> removing this, the approach there was so far was just a dirty hack. |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> Thing is, it works for me. The old udev worked, eudev works but I'm not |
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> >> sure what hoops I would have to go through to get the new udev working, |
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> >> most likely the same ones others here are going through now. For once, |
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> >> I'm not having to deal with some broken issue. < knock on wood > |
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> >> |
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> >> My current uptime is about 190 days. May hit it still but I'm certainly |
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> >> hoping I don't. |
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> > And, at least now, I have got enough knowledge to know whether it |
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> > affects me or not. But the sad thing is that I got most of that |
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> > knowledge *after* the first of these versions without the old script was |
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> > stabilized. |
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> > |
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> I switched to eudev when the separate /usr thing popped up. While I am |
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> watching this thread and sort of taking mental notes, I'm hoping this is |
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> not a eudev thing, even in the future. |
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You know that both udev and eudev have exactly the same issue with |
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separate /usr right? |
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The problem there isn't in the udev code, but it has to do with what is |
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happening in rules that other packages install. |
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William |
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