Re: Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 20:42 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 17:43 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
>> > Philip Hands @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 15:30 (+0200)
>> > > Martin Samuelsson <debianbts2020@nurysto.netizen.se> writes:
>> > >
>> > > Just to be clear on this point, are you saying [...]
>> >
>> > I'm saying there is no /dev/fd/ at all on current daily debian-installer
>> > images and hasn't been since at least 20200818 (which was the oldest one I
>> > could try with current kernel modules).
>> [...]
>>
>> Then we should investigate and fix that instead of removing code that
>> uses it.
>
> It's a udev regression, bug #967546.
Looks like that's deliberate, so probably Not A Bug. Quoting from
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/6b2229c6c60d0486 :
"if people want to use udev from other init systems
they should do this on their own,"
You might want to just fork udev while it still sort of works outside
systemd.
Bjørn
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