[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] udev: add udev-utils to RDEPENDS

[Saul Wold]

On 06/02/2014 11:58 PM, ChenQi wrote:
> On 02/03/2014 10:01 PM, David Nyström wrote:
>> On mån  3 feb 2014 14:43:53, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 13:58 +0100, David Nyström wrote:
>>>> An intended fix for below error message with core-image-lsb,
>>>> Sending this as an RFC since I dont really know what constitutes
>>>> a RRECOMMENDS vs. RDEPENDS.
>>>> Is this clearly defined somewhere ?
>>>> Below should be an RDEPENDS, no ?
>>>>
>>>> INIT: version 2.88 booting
>>>> Starting udev
>>>> udevd[59]: starting version 182
>>>> /etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 108: udevadm: command not found
>>>> /etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 113: udevadm: command not found
>>>> /etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 114: udevadm: command not found
>>>
>>> That depends (ha ha) on what the udevadm call in question is actually
>>> doing.  If udev is so badly broken without it as to be unusable then
>>> yes, it should be an RDEPENDS.  If udev will still work without then
>>> RRECOMMENDS is appropriate and the initscript should be tweaked to deal
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> p.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> SNIP
>> --
>>    udevadm control --env=STARTUP=1
>>    if [ "$not_first_boot" != "" ];then
>>            udevadm trigger --action=add --subsystem-nomatch=tty
>> --subsystem-nomatch=mem --subsystem-nomatch=vc
>> --subsystem-nomatch=vtconsole --subsystem-nomatch=misc
>> --subsystem-nomatch=dcon --subsystem-nomatch=pci_bus
>> --subsystem-nomatch=graphics        --subsystem-nomatch=backlight
>> --subsystem-nomatch=video4linux  --subsystem-nomatch=platform
>>            (udevadm settle --timeout=10; udevadm control --env=STARTUP=)&
>>    else
>>            udevadm trigger --action=add
>>            udevadm settle
>>    fi
>> --
>> SNIP
>>
>> Does this classify as essential ?
>>
>> If essential, we either need to move udev-utils to RDEPENDS.
>> If not essential, fix the script to detect if udevadm is available.
>>
>> Br,
>> David
>
> Hi All,
>
> I think it's essential.
> Without 'udevadm trigger --action=add', the system start-up process may
> have some problem. I can recall that once I removed this line from the
> init scripts in my live image, the image could not boot up correctly.
>
> I think this patch is reasonable and I'd like to acknowledge it.
>

If it's that essential, then we should incude udevadm in the udev 
package directly and not have a 1 file package for udev-utils at all.

v2 patch welcome

Sau!

> Best Regards,
> Chen Qi
>
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