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

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 16:37:11 EDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:47 AM, bardo <ilbardo 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?
>
> Just remember to update /etc/udev/readme-udev-arch.txt: it still
> references start_udev as the way to reload rules, and it's also
> mentioned in another couple of places in that file.

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.



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