From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: IPFire 2.x - Switching to udev from systemd 
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:00:01 +0100
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Hello Stefan,

Thank you for working on this so swiftly.

I would like to merge this into Core Update 181, because I feel quite confide=
nt about this.

There should not be any major differences between the former eudev and this v=
ersion, so let=E2=80=99s be brave and roll it out quickly.

Please see my comment on a required change on one of the patches. Otherwise I=
 feel that this is good to be merged.

-Michael

> On 21 Oct 2023, at 18:38, Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org> wrot=
e:
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> Hello devopment folks,
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> the eudev project got abandoned by the main development team some time ago.
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> See: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/eudev.git/commit/?id=3Df559dc96f4105f60=
5272defac9276ef9cb6f5dc6
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> Currently this old code base works very well on our systems, but we are get=
ting troubles to compile
> some newer sort of software with it. The second very important point is
> we need a maintainded udev code base again.
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> Sadly the only remaining udev code base is the officiall one, which got
> part of systemd and as a result of the pointed issues above the
> following patch series aims to bring a maintained udev back to IPFire.
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> The first two patches will add some additional packages which are
> required by the build system.
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> The third patch will adjust the LFS file to build udev from the systemd
> source code as minimal as possible (all systemd stuff is stripped).
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> The last patch will adjust the build order of some packages to get udev
> and depending packages build.
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> The new version of udev successfully has been compiled and tested in a
> virtual environment (KVM) which worked well.
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> Because udev is a very critical part of the boot process, this changes
> have to be tested very well until we can merge this patchset.
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> Please help testing and share your feedback.
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> Best regards,
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> -Stefan
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