On 15:09 Sun 20 Nov , Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Hello. For a variety of reasons, I want to install a hand-compiled > (and patched) 2.6.14 kernel. I have two questions concerning that. > > [1] At present, I have udev version 056 from stable, but the Changes > file in the kernel documentation recommends at least udev 058. Testing > and Unstable both have a much newer version of udev: 074. But when I > try to install this version, apt wants to remove both the hotplug and > module-init-tools packages. I gather that these later versions of udev > are supposed to supplant hotplug. But surely module-init-tools should > not be removed from the system? Can anyone shed any light on this? > The changelog for udev includes: > > * Added conflicts with hotplug and with module-init-tools > releases without support for /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/. > > Does this mean that there is no way at present to have both udev and > module-init-tools installed simultaneously in testing/unstable? > I have been running my custom 2.6.14 kernel with udev 074 for a few weeks. This latest version of udev removes hotplug and you can also remove all references to hotplug in /etc/*
But i did not have any conflict with module-init-tools. So you should not remove it. You could get around this by d/l the udev-074*.deb and using dpkg to install it and then purge hotplug. You can ask the udev developers about that ChangeLog on the list at linux.hotplug.devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
