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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 31 August 2008 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
>> 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?
>
> migrate udev creates device nodes which might be necessary, i wouldn't kill
> it.

It creates device nodes that the installer also creates. It only
appears useful if someone is installing improperly from an existing
system or from an older ISO. And, hell, if we *really* want to make
sure these devices exist, we should add checks to rc.sysinit to create
them before starting udev, rather than relying on a script to do so.