On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > > On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > >>> On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" > >>>>> mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the > >>>>> same behavior... > >>>>> > >>>> I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev update > >>>> was in Feb. so I *guess* not. It seems to be a "udev" thing. That is > >>>> why I mentioned eudev to someone else that was having this issue with a > >>>> server setup. > >>> I'd guess eudev will eventually do the same, although I hope that, it > >>> being a separate codebase, makes it easier to adopt some solution like > >>> the old rule generator, instead of using udev's approach. > >>> > >>> The udev upstream may have its issues, but there's actually a point in > >>> removing this, the approach there was so far was just a dirty hack. > >>> > >> > >> Thing is, it works for me. The old udev worked, eudev works but I'm not > >> sure what hoops I would have to go through to get the new udev working, > >> most likely the same ones others here are going through now. For once, > >> I'm not having to deal with some broken issue. < knock on wood > > >> > >> My current uptime is about 190 days. May hit it still but I'm certainly > >> hoping I don't. > > And, at least now, I have got enough knowledge to know whether it > > affects me or not. But the sad thing is that I got most of that > > knowledge *after* the first of these versions without the old script was > > stabilized. > > > > > I switched to eudev when the separate /usr thing popped up. While I am > watching this thread and sort of taking mental notes, I'm hoping this is > not a eudev thing, even in the future.
You know that both udev and eudev have exactly the same issue with separate /usr right? The problem there isn't in the udev code, but it has to do with what is happening in rules that other packages install. William
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