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

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 18:19:24 EDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> A suggestion was made 3 times to simply add a conflict line :
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11112#comment31331
>
> This is just a safety against foolish people.

Added locally.

Copied from arch-general (whoops, replied to the wrong list) regarding
the readme file we ship with the udev package

> Actually, I think we should remove this file. Reloading rules and all
> that is covered by the man pages and any arch specific documentation
> should be added to a wiki page so anyone can edit it.
>
> Any issues with removing this? We don't ship custom readme's with any
> other packages that I know of.


Additionally, do we need the migrate-udev script anymore? I sincerely
hope not. Any qualms with killing THAT off too?



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