On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:46:51AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:40:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Armin K. wrote: > >> For those of you not following systemd-devel mailing list, here are some > >> responses from Lennart regarding systemd and udev split. > > > > I figured we'd get that type of response, if any at all. > > Given the noises upstream were making when they originally announced the > systemd/udev source merge about the ability to still build and install udev > standalone this did somewhat surprise me. Maybe I was just too optimistic > or naive? :-( > IMHO, naive. There is a disconnect between what minimalists (which includes all source distros, in this context) and upstream / big distros want to do. Some of the responses in that thread totally miss the point.
> > We need to add things to udev anyway, like the persistent net rule. We > > know the environment and configure isn't needed at all, so we can just > > create a custom LFS file, Makefile.udev, and end up with: > > > > make -f Makefile.udev > > make -f Makefile.udev install > > > > I've already done most of the work and have it in make.sh/install.sh > > scripts. It's just a small issue to go from there to a Makefile and > > include that in the patch. Since we've been adding 55-lfs.rules in udev-config, I repeat that I've uploaded a revised version of udev-config, including the rules removed after 182, to ~/ken - or Bruce could add it all into his Makefile. > > That sounds good; from the scale of the changes that were being discussed > a week or so ago, I think maintaining a patch of that size would be > fraught with maintenance headaches. If the patch is just adding a > standalone Makefile, it should be much easier to handle as there won't > be any merge conflicts or the like. > > Thanks, > > Matt. > I'm not surprised by upstream's rejection of this. Let's leave it for a bit longer, perhaps there will be further developments. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
