#5128: eudev-1.7
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Reporter: fo | Owner: pierre.labastie
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.6
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: |
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Comment (by fo):
Thanks for the update.
The problem is that the objective of the page is not to install eudev, but
to add new features to the installed one, needed for some BLFS packages
and which could not be included in LFS, due to the lack of dependencies.
This was pointed out to you by Bruce, who also agreed with me about the
difference betwenn LFS (installed) and BLFS (eventually newer) eudev
versions.
Replying to [comment:4 pierre.labastie]:
> To test upgrading, I have built LFS SVN-20140527 (with eudev-1.6), on a
virtual machine with an LVM disk.
> Had some difficulties with the initramfs (udevd is back to /sbin...)
> The upgraded to eudev-1.7
So, you built a vm just for this upgrade.
> Everything seems to run smoothly, but I do not have much (virtual)
harware (one NIC, one graphic card).
In the past, before systemd broke udev, I used to upgrade udev (I think
you can find it in the archives, some dev wrote I was "very courageous" or
something like that). Only once had a problem, IIRC. For the book, due to
the responsibility, I did not want to do what once and, after your note,
still today was not supposed to be done.
Not being a page for installing a package, but having a page to update is
just a waist of time, already spent in LFS.
Also, I do not want to have the responsibility to eventually induce a
breakage in a user system.
> All in all, I left the title as it was, but kept the version in the
tarball name, adding a note about
> upgrading.
Adding one note about potential problems is another demonstration that the
book's page should be reversed to the old style.
One question you posed was if anybody had done it before, and at least
Bruce wrote that he didn't, and it was a response, although not direct.
I don't think that building a LFS just to update eudev is worth the
trouble, and I certainly will never do it, and doubt any other developer
but you would.
Therefore, I will reverse the page to the old style,
Thanks, anyway.
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