Aiming for 7.0

[Matthew Burgess]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:32:00 -0800, Bryan Kadzban <bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>> 4. Ticket 2284, upgrade of Udev, and strip out udev-config. I doubt
>> this needs its own branch. What sort of time/work is involved here?
> 
> Not a ton of work; with a few hours of time, I can probably get this up
> and running.  (I'd just have to compile a newer kernel, install udev,
> and start making changes to our config files.)  At a guess, Saturday
> (unless Matt wants to do it earlier ;-) ).

I was planning on committing all my package upgrades on Saturday (GMT), following a Friday night/Saturday morning build/boot cycle.
 
> I am concerned, however, about stripping out udev-config entirely.
> Maybe it's just because I don't like changing anything (visible) that
> doesn't have to.
> 
> I think it would be a better idea to do this in a couple of steps --
> yank out all the rules that are now duplicated first, then start going
> through what is left, and figuring out (a) where it came from (and why
> it's there) -- most of these are probably still "because MAKEDEV did it"
> -- and then (b) whether we actually need it.  Comparison to e.g. Ubuntu
> or Fedora rules will probably be instructive.  :-)

Yeah, I was caught in two minds about this.  As it is, my current patch yanks the whole lot out as it was by far the easiest option :-)

Tell you what, Bryan.  On Saturday, I'll commit the Udev upgrade by itself.  Then you/we can work on getting rid of the duplicate rules.  Then, at our leisure we can figure out what other rules we can nuke.

Regards,

Matt.