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Re: making udev require 2.6.15 kernels



On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:26:27PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri said:
> > sgran@debian.org wrote:

> > >In this case, does it make any sense to treat the two versions of udev
> > >similarly to how we treat library transitions?  I.e., rename the new
> > >udev to udev-$min-kernel-ver or something?  (the name is ugly, but
> > >you
> > It's not clear which problem this would solve, exactly.

> It could solve the 'I have overwritten the udev that worked with this
> kernel with a udev that dies and leaves me unable to function' problem.

> It is not a perfect idea, and I don't particularly like it (for
> aesthetic reasons if nothing else).  But if the best we can do is run
> time checks to determine which kernel we are running on, then we may
> need to support multiple udev versions.

The difficulty is in allowing multiple such udev packages to coexist
sensibly on the filesystem.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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