[oe] [PATCH 2/2] udev: moved udevadm to the main udev package

Ihar Hrachyshka ihar.hrachyshka at gmail.com
Mon May 25 10:55:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 12:54 +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz
>> <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl> wrote:
>> > Dnia niedziela, 24 maja 2009 o 20:33:05 Ihar Hrachyshka napisał(a):
>> >> The reason for the move is that udevadm binary is executed from udev
>> >> init.d script.
>> >
>> > NACK, NACK, NACK - udevadm is also udevinfo and is used by HAL. Your
>> > patch will make my mdev images not working properly because I would need
>> > to install mdev and udev to get HAL working and then find a way to not
>> > run udev at boot time (even after package upgrades).
>>
>> I tried to understand your complain (really) but don't get it. What do
>> you mean when saying "udevadm is also udevinfo and is used by HAL"?
>> And also please provide your solution for the problem of broken images
>> with unfuctional udev subsystem.
>
> I think he's saying that udevadm is needed by HAL for correct operation,
> even if you're using mdev instead of udev itself.
>
> It looks like udev used to Depend on udev-utils due to the existence
> of /sbin/udevsettle in version 124.  But, in version 141, that symlink
> has gone away and hence the dependency is no longer created.  The right
> fix is probably to add an explicit RDEPENDS_${PN} += "udev-utils" or
> some such.

Just sent the fix to ML.

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