On 3 January 2012 15:21, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote > >> I see three options: >> >> 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who >> has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs >> of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for >> gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we >> migrate everything, nothing else would work. >> >> 2) Combine the sbin and bin directories both on the root >> filesystem and in /usr by moving things from /sbin to /bin and /usr/sbin >> to /usr/bin. >> >> 3) Try to maintain things the way they are as long as possible. > > 4) Following pointers from Zac Medico and others, I've managed to get > Gentoo running with busybox's mdev, instead of udev. See > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bc91b392ee0f76376104591cdf7dc5f0.xml > Executive summary... look Ma; no udev!
Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that it might. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)
