| 1 |
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
| 2 |
> I have been masking udev-181 so that I can continue to keep my current |
| 3 |
> system with / and /usr separate partitions. |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> This has required masking pciutils and usbutils as well. |
| 6 |
> /etc/portage/package.mask/udev-181 contains |
| 7 |
> >=sys-fs/udev-181 |
| 8 |
> >=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2 |
| 9 |
> >=sys-apps/usbutils-005-r1 |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> Now udisks-1.99.0-r1 wants to pull in a new package udev-init-scripts. |
| 12 |
> I currently have udisks-1.98.0 which is fine. |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> I added |
| 15 |
> >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 |
| 16 |
> to package.mask/udev-181 and emerge --pretend --update world reports no |
| 17 |
> conflicts. |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> I was about to proceed when I looked at eix udisks and noticed that |
| 20 |
> 1. "my" udisk -1.98.0 is no longer there |
| 21 |
> 2. The 1-99.0-r1 is now in slot 2 and new 1.0.4-r[23] are in slot 0. |
| 22 |
> I looked at -r3 and it wants >=udev-171-r5. Since I have -r6 my sys. |
| 23 |
> should meet the requirement. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> So I wonder if my mask >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 is a bad idea and I should |
| 26 |
> instead be forcing/encouraging udisks-1.0.4-r3 (and, if so, how?). |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Not a bad idea per se, but you do realize that you cannoy keep masking |
| 29 |
some stuff and upgrading the rest, right? If you are happy with udisks |
| 30 |
1.98, get the ebuild /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/udisk-1.98.0 (if still there), |
| 31 |
and keep it in a personal overlay. The same with all the stuff you |
| 32 |
need for not upgrading udev. |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
But anyway, this will only work for some time; at some point, it is |
| 35 |
possible (and highly probable) that something you need will require |
| 36 |
udisks-1.99, or another package that itself requires a newer version |
| 37 |
of udev. The only way to avoid the upgrade is to left everything as it |
| 38 |
is (don't upgrade), or trying something like Walt's mdev setup: |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
Of course, not every software will work with that, contrary to udev. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
If you want to force an old version of udev, you will (eventually) |
| 45 |
force an old version of everything that depends directly or indirectly |
| 46 |
on udev. There is no way around that. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
I believe (for reading your posts into the list) that you really don't |
| 49 |
want an initramfs, or at least dracut. I would give it a try; I'm |
| 50 |
pretty sure is easier than juggling package masks. |
| 51 |
|
| 52 |
Regards. |
| 53 |
-- |
| 54 |
Canek Peláez Valdés |
| 55 |
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
| 56 |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Archives