[oe] [PATCH] micro.conf: Pin an older udev to avoid space consuming dependencies.

Michael Smith msmith at cbnco.com
Fri Dec 24 03:54:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Graham Gower wrote:

> micro-uclibc/micro-image with udev 124 = 957207 bytes.
> micro-uclibc/micro-image with udev 162 = 2303604 bytes.

Could you be convinced to try udev 141? When I build it, its only 
runtime dependencies are glibc and libvolume-id.

> +PREFERRED_VERSION_udev ?= "124"

I'd suggest adding a comment above this setting, something like:

# Pin an older udev to avoid space consuming dependencies.

Otherwise the rationale doesn't show unless you do a git blame.

Mike




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