[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Replaces udev with eudev for compatibility when using sysvinit on newer kernels

[Alejandro Hernandez]

On 02/27/2016 02:32 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 23:34 +0000, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
>> udev has started to fail on new kernels (4.4), due to being
>> deprecated in favor
>> of systemd's udev implementation. To maintain a sysvinit alternative
>> we also
>> need to provide an alternative to udev. Eudev is a fork of systemds
>> udev,
>> this new eudev recipe provides upstream udev 220 funcitonality.
>>
>> - libgudev is not provided by eudev as it was with udev before
>> - We can now drop usbutils_007 since usbutils_008 is now compatible
>>    also with eudev, and not only with systemd's udev
>> - Adds new eudev package to maintainers.inc
> This doesn't correctly handle multlibs:
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-multilib/bui
> lds/675/steps/BuildImages_2/logs/stdio
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-multilib/bui
> lds/675/steps/BuildImages_3/logs/stdio
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-multilib/bui
> lds/675/steps/Running%20Sanity%20Tests_1/logs/stdio
>
> The issue is that these files should be installed into /lib/udev
> regardless of the multilib, they're common files, I think there is a
> "nonarch" variable with the correct directory name in it.
OK, I will look into this, thanks Richard.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard