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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] watch out for udev-180
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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2012/2/2 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>:
> 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)

It might be good to drop a line to this people explaining the
situation, so we can avoid this in future versions.

> 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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