Re: Upgrading udev
I need to upgrade udev-056 to a more recent version, say 122, on a older LFS. This, I understand, can be tricky. I figured if I chrooted into the system from elsewhere, deleted the existing version and reinstalled it would work. What do you think, any advice on this matter appreciated? MAC Hi Cliff I've been working away from home for some months so I don't have access to my LFS/BLFS boxes. As I mentioned before, I upgraded LFS 6.11 from what was an early version of udev (which needed hotplug) to a relatively recent version. I had no problems that I can remember; i think that I just overwrote the old version and removed hotplug, although maybe I removed both first -- not sure. . My advice though is to work on a copy of the OS -- that way if something does go wrong then you have other copies to fall back on. It also means that you don't have to work on a live version. i usually have different copies that I can boot into from grub. i can run from the master and mount other copies (directories or files) on a temporary mount point; trying different upgrades on each. If it doesn't work out (if you can't boot into that copy) then you can delete that copy and you still have the master. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Upgrading udev on LFS-6.1.1
On 8/11/06, Jeremy Henty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run LFS-6.1.1 , upgraded to kernel-2.6.16.27 and udev-071 . Can I upgrade to udev-096 using the LFS-6.2 instructions or will it break horribly? I should disable hotplug as well, right? I see this was from a couple weeks ago, but I've been out of town and am still getting through old mail. Three major things to get to current udev. 1. Kernel upgrade = 2.6.16.10 (check the NEWS/README in udev to be sure) 2. Udev rules update. Grab the udev-config tarball from LFS-6.2. 3. Udev bootscripts update. Grab the lfs-bootscripts tarball from LFS-6.2. Remove the old udev bootscript. If there's a hotplug bootscript, remove that, too. I can't remember. Install the new udev and udev_retry bootscripts. They should be S10 and S45, respectively, in rcsysinit.d. Look at the targets in the bootscripts Makefile. That's it. Remove the old hotplug cruft if it bothers you, but nothing's gonna try to use it. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
