Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 16:39, hasufell wrote: On 08/12/2013 02:06 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 12/08/13 14:37, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2013 05:01 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader"

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread hasufell
On 08/12/2013 02:06 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 12/08/13 14:37, hasufell wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/02/2013 05:01 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: > > Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 15:38, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to l

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 15:19, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> >>> True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's >>> how maintainership works. >>> But trying to lie to people it's some

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 15:17, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something currently is annoying as 'ell and should be corrected wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/08/2013 13:37, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-12 6:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 12/08/2013 12:19, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Hmmm... so is it eudev that would need to be updated to 'fix' this? Or >>> virtual/udev? Or both? > >> It has to do with how virtuals work. >> >> If you have the virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >> True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's >> how maintainership works. >> But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something currently is >> annoying as

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-12 8:06 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: True, it won't be dropped for long as people are maintaining it. That's how maintainership works. But trying to lie to people it's somehow solving something currently is annoying as 'ell and should be corrected where seen. It is solving the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 14:37, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2013 05:01 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network in

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-12 7:37 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I just confirmed that while I do have sys-fs/udev in world, but I *do* have virtual/udev. Crap... I meant I do NOT have sys-fs/eudev (or sys-fs/udev) in @world...

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-12 6:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/08/2013 12:19, Tanstaafl wrote: Hmmm... so is it eudev that would need to be updated to 'fix' this? Or virtual/udev? Or both? It has to do with how virtuals work. If you have the virtual in @world, and none of the packages that satisfy the v

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/02/2013 05:01 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> >>> Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default >>> in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names >>> work

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/08/13 13:19, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-11 2:38 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 11/08/13 21:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: There was a blocker (small b) because virtual/udev needed sys-fs/udev and that gave a blocker that uninstalled eudev. I believe it's 'b' if user doesn't have sys-fs/eude

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/08/2013 12:19, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-11 2:38 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 11/08/13 21:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> There was a blocker (small b) because virtual/udev needed sys-fs/udev >>> and >>> that gave a blocker that uninstalled eudev. > >> I believe it's 'b' if user doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 2:38 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 11/08/13 21:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: There was a blocker (small b) because virtual/udev needed sys-fs/udev and that gave a blocker that uninstalled eudev. I believe it's 'b' if user doesn't have sys-fs/eudev in /var/lib/portage/world, but 'B'

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 11/08/13 21:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:52:26 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: but the issue here was eudev *not* being updated when the virtual was, and both cause and result were quite clear. Right, but I was talking about not updating *anything* related to any mission critica

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:52:26 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > but the issue here was eudev *not* being updated when the virtual > > was, and both cause and result were quite clear. > > Right, but I was talking about not updating *anything* related to any > mission critical apps, and that would incl

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 11:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:25:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: So, looks like the best strategy is not to blindly update eudev, and always check these things, before attempting an upgrade, and waiting for it to catch up if/when it happens. Well, you shouldn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:25:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-11 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I'm afraid that doesn't solve the problem I had at all, because I'm > > running ~arch. It's as Samuli said, the eudev release lagged behind > > udev, causing the virtual to look elsewhere for it

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm afraid that doesn't solve the problem I had at all, because I'm running ~arch. It's as Samuli said, the eudev release lagged behind udev, causing the virtual to look elsewhere for its satisfaction. So, looks like the best strategy is not to blind

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:36:59 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I expect it to happen around every new udev release that causes > > slight incompability; the default of the virtual/udev, sys-fs/udev, > > doesn't have to wait for the alternative providers. > > The elegant solution is outlined in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 11/08/13 08:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 09:57:52AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote I expect it to happen around every new udev release that causes slight incompability; the default of the virtual/udev, sys-fs/udev, doesn't have to wait for the alternative providers. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 09:57:52AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > I expect it to happen around every new udev release that causes slight > incompability; the default of the virtual/udev, sys-fs/udev, doesn't > have to wait for the alternative providers. The elegant solution is outlined in my

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-10 2:47 PM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: Well, that was about as uneventful as it gets. emerge -C udev emerge -1 eudev etc-update, accepted changes /etc/init.d/udev restart Done... Thanks very much to all who replied to ease my worried mind (especially Neil). :) I added a foru

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-10 8:11 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> I always emerge -pvuDN world and look very carefully at the results, and >> I also wait at least 2 or 3 days before installing any system critical >> updates (has saved me headaches more than once). >> >> Ok, here goes... ;) > > Well, t

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-10 8:11 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I always emerge -pvuDN world and look very carefully at the results, and I also wait at least 2 or 3 days before installing any system critical updates (has saved me headaches more than once). Ok, here goes... ;) Well, that was about as uneventful as it

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - Reboot Necessary?

2013-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:33:48 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 2013-08-09 7:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Last - is simply restarting udev good enough, or should I go ahead > >> and reboot anyway before continuing with other updates? Restarting worked for me on a server. On my laptop I switched

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Hmmm... Do I need (I don't think so) the kmod USE flag set for eudev and virtual/udev? I have kernel modules disabled on this system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - Reboot Necessary?

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-10 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-09 7:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Last - is simply restarting udev good enough, or should I go ahead and reboot anyway before continuing with other updates? Never got a response to this... I'd prefer to not reboot if I don't have to, but it isn

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - Reboot Necessary?

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-09 7:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Last - is simply restarting udev good enough, or should I go ahead and reboot anyway before continuing with other updates? Never got a response to this... I'd prefer to not reboot if I don't have to, but it isn't *that* big a deal if it is 'recommended

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-10 2:57 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/08/13 23:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev because eudev hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/08/13 23:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev because eudev hadn't been updated (on ~amd64). Can you elaborate

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:45:47 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > No, the virtual is always needed, eudev satisfies it. but you do need > > to make sure your USE settings for eudev and virtual/udev match. > > Ok... so, as long as I don't have anything for either of them in > package.use, I'm ok? > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-09 8:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:12:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to eudev. emerge -Ca udev emerge -1a eudev Two last questions

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:12:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me > >> find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to > >> eudev. > > > > emerge -Ca udev > > emerge -1a eudev > > Two last questions (first one never

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-01 2:43 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:28:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to eudev. emerge -Ca udev emerge -1a eudev Two last questions

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-06 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/06/2013 07:20 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 08/05/2013 05:12 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 08/04/2013 11:56 AM, Dale wrote: Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this th

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 21:10:27 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I can't remember what it was now, and it may have been avoidable by > > making virtual/udev-206 (or whichever version it was that needed a > > higher udev version than eudev could provide). It's moot now as eudev > > has been updated and po

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-06 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/05/2013 05:12 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 08/04/2013 11:56 AM, Dale wrote: >> Anthony G. Basile wrote: >>> >>> I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev >>> will not be dropped. >>> >> >> I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:10:45AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote > For now. And you get a ton of bloat. I removed over 300 unused > functions. Wonderful. It reminds me of... http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26979.html > Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:18:38PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > > But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev > > > now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev > > > because eudev hadn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:19:34PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > That might be the systemd upstream view point, but definately isn't mine. Your view and mine don't matter. Upstream's view matters. That's how we end up with fiascos like GNOME and Microsoft's Metro interface. > Fact is that u

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-05 4:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev because eudev hadn't been updated (on ~amd64). Can you elabo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:24:27 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to udev > > now, AFAICT, and a recent update forced me to switch back to udev > > because eudev hadn't been updated (on ~amd64). > > Can you elaborate on what this update was th

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-05 10:10 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 08/05/2013 06:19 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: That might be the systemd upstream view point, but definately isn't mine. Fact is that udev can be built and ran standalone without systemd and you don't need eudev for that. For now. And this i

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Going back and re-reading finds this answer to my other last question - also from you Neil (so thanks again!)... But I'm curious... On 2013-08-01 2:43 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:28:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the li

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/05/2013 06:19 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/08/13 05:56, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want eudev re

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:12:02AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote > I am the current lead. You may follow the activity here [1]. > > [1] https://github.com/gentoo/eudev/commits/master Thank you very much for your work on eudev, from an end-user who benefits from your work. -- Walter Dnes I

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/08/13 13:27, Marc Stürmer wrote: Why is was forked you ask? Because of the predictable Name stuff and some People disliked the attitude of the udev programmer which was "either my way or the high way." aside choice is always Good to have so in the end IT was bound to happen sooner or later

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Marc Stürmer
Why is was forked you ask? Because of the predictable Name stuff and some People disliked the attitude of the udev programmer which was "either my way or the high way." aside choice is always Good to have so in the end IT was bound to happen sooner or later and is a Good thing to have.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/08/13 05:56, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want eudev removed, and Lennart Poettering wants udev on non-

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-05 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/04/2013 11:56 AM, Dale wrote: Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm assuming you are involved in the project so allow me

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Dale wrote > I have this in package.keywords > > sys-fs/eudev > > I did mask the - version tho since I didn't want to get that brave > in the future. I'm not sure if you have to keyword or unmask anything > now that it is not beta and been tested mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > <<< SNIP >>> > 2. Would anyone who is using eudev please post udev/eudev related >contents of both package.mask and package.keywords? > > The reason I ask for #2 is, I've been playing with pretending emerging > after modifying package.keywords and .mask, and am co

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:39:04 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Do I actually and really need *anything* udev/eudev related in > package.mask, and what, in addition to sys-fs/eudev ~amd64, do I need > in package.keywords? No and nothing. Howevr, you do need to make sure that your USE flag settings for sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-04 11:56 AM, Dale wrote: Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm assuming you are involved in the project so allow me

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Dale
Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev > will not be dropped. > I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm assuming you are involved in the project so allow me to say this: THANKS MUCH!! D

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-04 9:02 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: On 08/03/2013 10:56 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want e

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/03/2013 10:56 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want eudev removed, and Lennart Poettering wants udev on

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:03:58AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > FUD again. The backwards compability is still all there and udev can be > built standalone and ran standalone. For how long can it be built standalone? The following "FUD" brought to you courtesy of Kay Sievers... http://list

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like > sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want eudev removed, and Lennart Poettering wants udev on non-systemd systems dropped. Add those tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:42:36AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. > i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: > > the only real different is USE="rule-generator" and that's it > > and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and h

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 19:17, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-01 7:27 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Something like >> >> olympus ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask >>> =sys-fs/udev-180 >> ... >> olympus ~ # >> >> olympus ~ # grep udev /etc/portage/package.keywords >> sys-fs/eudev ~amd64 >> =virtual/udev-206 ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-02 8:15 AM, Dale wrote: >> Tanstaafl wrote: >>> But what about removing the udev-postmount init script? I guess that >>> is the last question I need answered before jumping down the rabbit >>> hole Sunday... > >> This is what I have for that from rc-update show: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-02 8:15 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: But what about removing the udev-postmount init script? I guess that is the last question I need answered before jumping down the rabbit hole Sunday... This is what I have for that from rc-update show: udev-postmount | default Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/08/2013 14:10, Dale wrote: >> Here is >> where we will always differ, I decide on my machine what I use, NOT >> YOU. > > > Hey Dale, > > Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back :-) > > > [[ hugz and peace ]] > This guy is about to enter Lennart territory. I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-01 5:41 PM, Dale wrote: >> When the version of udev came out that was said to require a init thingy >> or /usr on /, that is when I switched to eudev. I haven't used the >> newer versions of udev. I do have this in my kernel config tho: >> >> root@fireball / # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/08/2013 14:10, Dale wrote: > Here is > where we will always differ, I decide on my machine what I use, NOT > YOU. Hey Dale, Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back :-) [[ hugz and peace ]] -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Dale
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 08:28, Dale wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> >>> Except it isn't because as already explained, eudev makes additional >>> changes on top of udev changes. >>> >>> >>> Which is true. >> >> Let's see them. I'll help you: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-01 7:27 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Something like olympus ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask =sys-fs/udev-180 ... olympus ~ # olympus ~ # grep udev /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-fs/eudev ~amd64 =virtual/udev-206 ~amd64 olympus ~ # unmerge everything udev && emerge eudev its

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-01 5:41 PM, Dale wrote: When the version of udev came out that was said to require a init thingy or /usr on /, that is when I switched to eudev. I haven't used the newer versions of udev. I do have this in my kernel config tho: root@fireball / # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 09:06, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:17 AM, William Kenworthy >> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: > > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 09:06, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:17 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:17 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: >>> Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interfac

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Dale wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: >>> Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 08:28, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 06:14, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 06:14, Dale wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: > > Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in > sys-fs/udev > Futhermore predictable network interface names work a

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Graham Murray
Samuli Suominen writes: > Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a > single valid bug filed about them. > > Stop spreading FUD. In what way are network interface names predictable? A new system arrives on your desk, what is the name of the first (or only) Ethernet i

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 06:14, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a single valid bug filed about them. S

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> >>> Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in >>> sys-fs/udev >>> Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a >>> single valid bug filed about t

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> >>> Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in >>> sys-fs/udev >>> Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a >>> single valid bug filed about them. >>> >>> Stop s

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a single valid bug filed about them. Stop spreading FUD. Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/e

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Samuli Suominen wrote: > > Huh? USE="firmware-loader" is optional and enabled by default in > sys-fs/udev > Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a > single valid bug filed about them. > > Stop spreading FUD. > > Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like > sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 04:01, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:42:36AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said it many times, and i'll say it again: the only real different is USE="rule-generator" and that's it and sys-fs/eudev i

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:28:38PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote > Hi all, > > Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs > systemd thread. > > I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, > debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:42:36AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote > nope, you just believed all the FUD there has been out there. i've said > it many times, and i'll say it again: > > the only real different is USE="rule-generator" and that's it > > and sys-fs/eudev is constantly out of date and

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 03:19, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 07:42, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have b

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 07:42, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs >>> systemd thread. >>> >>> I have an older server that I have been putting off this u

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 07:42, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: ... > > so why follow with unreliable fork, when there is the official package > available with equal features? > > easy - it works and while I had machines running som

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eu

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs > systemd thread. > > I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, > debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. > > I've googled until my f

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 02/08/13 00:49, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: On 01/08/13 19:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular ude

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 01/08/13 19:28, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs >> systemd thread. >> >> I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, >> debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-01 4:04 PM, Dale wrote: > >> I switched when it was still fresh and it wasn't to bad from what I >> recall. Just emerge -C udev and emerge eudev. I think I masked udev to >> make sure it didn't get pulled in any more by something else but other >> than that, it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 01/08/13 19:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. I've googled until my fingers are blue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-01 4:04 PM, Dale wrote: I switched when it was still fresh and it wasn't to bad from what I recall. Just emerge -C udev and emerge eudev. I think I masked udev to make sure it didn't get pulled in any more by something else but other than that, it just worked. I would recommend go

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs > systemd thread. > > I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, > debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. > > I've googled until my fingers are blue, but c

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:28:38 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me > find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from udev to eudev. emerge -Ca udev emerge -1a eudev But there's not a lot of point as eudev isn't that different to

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Thursday 01 August 2013 12:28:38 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs > systemd thread. > > I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, > debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. > > I've g

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