On 2016-08-25 14:06, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> So, I took the steps of forking Jude Nelson's vdev on git.devuan.org,
> and augmenting it with an initial set up for deb package building.
>

> I set it up as three deb's:
>    libudev1-compat to replace libudev1,
>    vdevd being the daemon, and
>    vdev being the configuration, initramfs building and the set up as
> sysvinit startup script.

>
> I've built sample packages for amd64, and tested on a pristine Devuan
> 1.0.0, (with DE+Xfce, printer server and ssh server). Available at
>
> https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev/release
>
> If you download those and install together (as in dpkg -i *.deb), your
> system will change into using vdev rather than udev, but it doesn't
> uninstall udev for you. It "only" removes udev's sysvinit scripts, and
> udev's configuration for initramfs building, and the "init" script
> (replaces the one from initramfs-tools).
>
> When installing, it might warn about volume symlinks not being
> created. It's is safe to ignore this. Alternatively you install lvm2
> first.
>
> You can also build your own deb's by cloning
> https://git.devuan.org/ralph.ronnquist/vdev
>
> and using
> $ make -f debian.mk
>
> provided you have dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage, as well as
> build-essential. Since I'm quite new to package building, it only
> contains the bare-bones so far. There are also no upstream changes to
> source other than to Makefile's and initramfs scripts, with the
> exception of the very minor patch to
> vdevd/helpers/LINUX/udev-compat.sh.
>
> As a side note, eventually I realised that the main issue why the
> keyboard didn't work, was that the evdev module didn't get installed,
> and that it needs to be installed before /dev/input is populated.
>
> Ralph.

Great work Ralph.

I will test it during next week and give feedback.

Since I had a go at making it work meself could you explain how
you went about getting evdev module loaded before /dev/input was
populated


Also how did you solve the problem with logfile could not be written
at the logfile path?

Just curious and need to learn

/scooby

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