On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:30:17PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:27:55PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > wrote: > >> http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ > > > > Somehow, this inspired me to poke at packaging mdev. > > I don't have a website or apt repository atm, so I can't provide a deb. > > http://hands.com/~lkcl/mdev/ > > unsigned.
Thanks! > > But here's the source in git: > > > > https://github.com/idunham/mdev > > > > To build it, use "dpkg-buildpackage -b". > > > > STATUS: > > This provides hooks for mkinitramfs, and *can* create a working initrd. > > There's an init script that's shipped along with it, and a fairly close > > to standard Debian layout for /dev. > > great! > > > It provides udev, because that was the only way to defeat the dependency > > chain and make it work. > > i have no idea how to do that properly but... yeah "Provides: udev" > sounds about right. > > the only thing i spotted is that the package built has "_all" in it - > my understanding is that that's reserved for things that are > architecture-independent. is mdev _definitely_ > architecture-independent? This is along the same lines as udhcpc: it is a configuration package for code that comes in busybox. So this package is architecture-independent. >>isaac i get "cannot stat /etc/modprobe.d/*" when doing >>the update-initramfs -u, hope that's ok... >> >>SPLAT :) dozens of "unknown user/group root:root on line 20 ... about >>100 of those... Thanks for mentioning that error in update-initramfs, otherwise I'd have no idea what's going on. Obviously I need to include /etc/modprobe.d/something.conf, and change move the "don't run with udev" logic from mdev-hook to mdev-{top,bottom}. For those who want to try with the existing deb: * remove not purge udev, or touch /etc/modprobe.d/empty.conf before running update-initramfs. Evidently, /etc/group and /etc/passwd did not get created. This means that mdev-hook never finished, which means that udev was still installed. In turn, that means that purging udev breaks update-initramfs, presumably because /etc/modprobe.d/* goes away. I should have a fix soon. Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
