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

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Mon May 25 16:53:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 13:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Having it in mind
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka
> <ihar.hrachyshka at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >> 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.
> 
> I belive that the right way to fix it is add a binary package only for
> udevadm 

That's pretty much what udev-utils is: it doesn't contain any binaries
apart from udevadm.  

> and make udev depends on it and mdev suggests it.

Mdev itself doesn't have any use for udevadm, so having mdev Recommend
udev-utils wouldn't be the right thing; this would just be a waste of
space for people who are using mdev without HAL (which, I suspect, is
actually the majority of mdev users).

p.






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