[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-2
Dan McGee
dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 11:04:32 EST 2008
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2008/2/21, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/2/21, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > 2008/2/21, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > This superseeds Dan's previous signoff for the 118 version bump.
> > > > Included are the following changes:
> > > > FS#8702 - Fix persistant input devices
> > > > FS#8878 - Attempted speed up of load-modules.sh
> > > > FS#8591 - Fix loading of RTC devices
> > > >
> > > > Additionally, this package is required for the new initscripts which
> > > > are required for the new ISOs. Please sign off
> > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, won't signoff until http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9636 will be checked.
> >
> >
> > Actually, it turned out that the bug is in initscripts, not in udev.
> >
>
> I've just rendered my system unusable after installing udev-118-2 but
> not the latest initscripts,
> because initscripts in core check for start_udev, and when it's not
> available - falls back to static /dev which obviously has only a
> couple of files, and no /dev/sda*.
> User has to remount / in rw mode (to make changes to local db
> possible), then downgrade udev or update initscripts.
>
> This happens only when user upgrades udev without upgrading to
> initscripts first.
> I don't know how this should be solved in a clean way.
> Will a big fat warning in udev's pre_upgrade with 'read' command and
> Ctrl-C possibility be enought?
> The situation when upgrading initscripts and using older udev is
> already covered by depends=(... udev>=118 ...) in initscripts'
> PKGBUILD.
This is exactly why I wanted to do the udev upgrade a bit more gradually...
start_udev sucks, but we can leave it in for an iteration or two.
-Dan
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