Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:00:39 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] watch out for udev-180
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Hi,

To all udev users: If you have upgraded today or yesterday, please
apk upgrade -a again and make sure that you no longer have udev-180. It
will kill your box... sorry.


I pushed udev-180 upgrade, did a reboot and everything seemed ok.

Today I realized that the upgrade I did was on my main workstation and
not the laptop and I discovered that my workstation was completely
broken.

So I digged around and figured out that they yet again have moved
around things and that they now require devtmpfs support in kernel.
This means I was forced to revert the udev-180 upgrade.

Things like this could have been avoided if they had a proper home page
with proper news that you could read before downloading the tarball.
(the only way they communicate this things is in NEWS file within the
tarball)

I don't think it is good that udev has such a monopoly situation where
they try to push systemd down the throat on everyone. Unfortunally, if
you want a desktop system with working hotplugging, you do not have any
options.

again. sorry for the inconvenience

-nc


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