On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:18:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:38:35AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:36:12AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Mar 18, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > > > 3) Inform the user that a reboot is needed in order for it to work. > > > No, it's not! Months ago I did a lot of work in postinst to support > > > reboot-less installation of udev. > > > There is not enough data in this bug report to even start investigating > > > it but I believe that the problem is caused by #296776 and #296975, > > > which I fixed over a month ago but are being kept out of testing by the > > > broken arm buildd. > > It's also waiting on a new version of makedev, which is frozen and includes > > lots of changes not related to the udev change, and has only been in > > unstable for two days. Cc:ed to the maintainer (Bdale) as well, for > > comments on whether makedev should be pushed through. > > It would be good if someone could do a concrete d-i sid test with this > > version of udev, to confirm that it does solve the problems in question. > Ok, will do, i need a install on powerpc/sid using the daily builds, nothing > more, right ? Yes. Marco says that the changes have been tested, but I'm not sure if that includes a full d-i install, so I'd like to have one on record to be sure. > > > Cc'ed to the release managers, who may want to force again udev in > > > testing to fix these RC bugs. > > I suspect so, but I think it's best to let makedev age a little more before > > pushing it in. Joey, is there any d-i deadline I need to worry about for > > this? I assume that if we have a known good fix, it's not a problem for it > > to not be in the d-i rc3 release, as long as it gets on the official CD > > builds for sarge? > I believe that this is not a problem for d-i, as udev is not in base, so not > part of anything d-i builds, apart from the full isos, which are or not d-i > related. > The makedev issue could be problematic though, as you say it is part of base. > Could it be possible to have a fixed udev built against the testing version of > makedev, and push it in through testing-proposed-updates ? With manual builds > if needed. Based on Bdale's feedback, I'm pushing both makedev and udev into testing tonight. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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