On 24/12/16 00:49, David Hare wrote:
Anto,
Hello David,
you are the 4th to attempt eudev packaging (including me). Dimitri Puzin began this but did not finish the job. It's one thing to get something new working but to be on the case of it's continued maintenance is much more. Actually, I didn't know till now you were doing this and the only working deb packages appear to be mine and Jaret's. Mine were done before Jaret's (and are done somewhat differently). However Jaret most likely has greater packaging experience than myself.
Historically, we had actually discussed this in detail back in May 2015. Since the release of eudev, I have been searching but I could not find any working eudev package for Debian until around that time.
If you remember, I asked you about the package on https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/devuan-eudev(https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150513.173658.ddc0b1c1.en.html). That was after I got frustrated to have eudev package from that repository successfully compiled (https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150507.184709.ef5bb112.en.html). Jaret then saved me from committing suicide :) (https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150517.032838.0d000655.en.html).
I had some issues after Jaret changed all package names into *eudev* (https://git.devuan.org/jaretcantu/eudev/commit/ae4d615935071f860681526c645a05bba61b84ba). So I forked his repository and modified it which I announced on https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150525.022838.aaf28973.en.html. I had problem in synchronising it with https://github.com/gentoo/eudev, so I moved it to https://github.com/anto/eudev-deb. And finally merged and maintain it on https://github.com/anto/eudev.
The main problems for me were actually replacing udev in a running system and how to name the packages so dependencies of others were satisfied.
I don't think it is a big issue to replace the running udev on laptop and KVM based VPS as we can still have access to GRUB menu to recover from any issues. I had issue in switching udev with eudev on my Xen based VPS. I had to re-image my VPS and restore the data from the backup. I summarised my experience on the general installation of eudev to replace udev on https://github.com/anto/eudev-deb/blob/master/README.md.
If you take a look at them all before you start, might save you some work. My last version is here (with sources): http://exegnulinux.net/nosystemd/pool/main/e/eudev/ That is based on eudev version 3.0.1 .. Everything works (here), including initramfs in a "live" environment (which is my main interest). The latest version might not not be the best one to use, as I was told by blueness, the main developer. Apart fom git repo (last commit 2 days ago, yes it's active) the latest archived tarball is 3.2.1 https://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/eudev/eudev-3.2.1.tar.gz (December 11, 2016).
Thanks David. Do you maintain the source of your eudev package on a git repository? If so, would it be possible to share that with us?
David
Cheers, Anto _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
