[arch-general] [signoff] udev-167-1

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Apr 9 18:16:46 EDT 2011


On 10/04/11 08:04, Seblu wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> Hi guys.
>> udev 167
>> ========
>> Bugfixes.
>>
>> The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The
>> /run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot,
>> available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup,
>> it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day.
>>
>> If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using
>> /dev/.udev/.
>>
>> On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must
>> make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs
>> needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and
>> mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database
>> is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs.
>>
>> The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
>> itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.
>>
>> The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control
>> socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon.
>> The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which
>> can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to
>> act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally
>> 'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target.
>>
>> The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev
>> should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and
>> should not mirror fstab values in the udev database.
>>
>> please signoff both arches,
>> greetings
>> tpowa
>> --
>> Tobias Powalowski
>> Archlinux Developer&  Package Maintainer (tpowa)
>> http://www.archlinux.org
>> tpowa at archlinux.org
>>
> Package is not available : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=udev
>
> Something wrong?
>

 > pacman -Si udev
Repository     : testing
Name           : udev
Version        : 167-1

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