On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:27:55PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
>
> Somehow, this inspired me to poke at packaging mdev.
> I don't have a website or apt repository atm, so I can't provide a deb.

http://hands.com/~lkcl/mdev/

unsigned.

> But here's the source in git:
>
> https://github.com/idunham/mdev
>
> To build it, use "dpkg-buildpackage -b".
>
> STATUS:
> This provides hooks for mkinitramfs, and *can* create a working initrd.
> There's an init script that's shipped along with it, and a fairly close
> to standard Debian layout for /dev.

great!

> It provides udev, because that was the only way to defeat the dependency
> chain and make it work.

i have no idea how to do that properly but... yeah "Provides: udev"
sounds about right.

the only thing i spotted is that the package built has "_all" in it -
my understanding is that that's reserved for things that are
architecture-independent. is mdev _definitely_
architecture-independent?

installing and testing now...

l.