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List:       ipfire-development
Subject:    Re: IPFire 2.x - Switching to udev from systemd
From:       Michael Tremer <michael.tremer () ipfire ! org>
Date:       2023-10-26 8:57:00
Message-ID: 5BD94CC3-3EC9-45D5-88FA-45ACB155B7DC () ipfire ! org
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Hello Stefan,

Thank you for working on this so swiftly.

I would like to merge this into Core Update 181, because I feel quite confident about \
this.

There should not be any major differences between the former eudev and this version, \
so let's be brave and roll it out quickly.

Please see my comment on a required change on one of the patches. Otherwise I feel \
that this is good to be merged.

-Michael

> On 21 Oct 2023, at 18:38, Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello devopment folks,
> 
> the eudev project got abandoned by the main development team some time ago.
> 
> See: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/eudev.git/commit/?id=f559dc96f4105f605272defac9276ef9cb6f5dc6
>  
> Currently this old code base works very well on our systems, but we are getting \
> troubles to compile some newer sort of software with it. The second very important \
> point is we need a maintainded udev code base again.
> 
> Sadly the only remaining udev code base is the officiall one, which got
> part of systemd and as a result of the pointed issues above the
> following patch series aims to bring a maintained udev back to IPFire.
> 
> The first two patches will add some additional packages which are
> required by the build system.
> 
> The third patch will adjust the LFS file to build udev from the systemd
> source code as minimal as possible (all systemd stuff is stripped).
> 
> The last patch will adjust the build order of some packages to get udev
> and depending packages build.
> 
> The new version of udev successfully has been compiled and tested in a
> virtual environment (KVM) which worked well.
> 
> Because udev is a very critical part of the boot process, this changes
> have to be tested very well until we can merge this patchset.
> 
> Please help testing and share your feedback.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Stefan
> 
> 


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