[arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 04:35:43 EDT 2008


2008/8/30 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Eric Belanger
> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Also, /etc/start_udev refers to /sbin/udevtrigger and /sbin/udevsettle.
>> These binaries are missing in udev-126-2. If they were removed on purpose,
>> then start_udev should be updated.
>
> start_udev is still there because people were jackasses and didn't
> update initscripts when they updated udev.... or something.. I can't
> remember the issue, but it was people being foolish and expecting
> their systems to boot fine.
>
> Is everyone ok with removing it?

I think yes. We cannot support old initscripts forever.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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