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Author: Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] eudev in experimental for ascii
I forgot to mention: RDX drives got full funtionality back again :-)


Am Montag, 27. November 2017 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
> Hi!
>
>
> Am Montag, 27. November 2017 schrieb Jaromil:
> >
> > dear DNG readers,
> >
> > for those who have Devuan ASCII running, we have a package of eudev in
> > experimental to test and feedback is very welcome, since this is the
> > candidate package to substitute udev. eudev is maintained upstream by
> > talented people at Gentoo who definitely deserve our praise.
> >
> > Beware this package DOES NOT WORK ON Jessie.
> >
> > For your convenience an ASCII based qcow2 image and vagrant box is
> > publicly available via the DECODE project (Devuan derivative)
> > https://files.dyne.org/decode/OS/
> >
> > So when you are running ASCII already then all you have to do is add the
> > experimental repository to your apt sources.list with this line
> >
> > deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan experimental main
> >
> > then apt update and
> >
> > apt-get -t experimental install eudev
> >
> > currently, the full version of the package is 3.2.2-devuan2.7
> >
> > those who were already testing our eudev package need to specify the
> > full version, since we are switching to correct semantic versioning
> > and dropping the "220" prefix inherited by bad versioning practices in
> > udev:
> >
> > apt-get -t experimental install eudev=3.2.2-devuan2.7
> >
> > According to our tests it installs and it boots!
> >
> > ii  eudev                              3.2.2-devuan2.7
> > ii  libeudev1:amd64                    3.2.2-devuan2.7
> > ii  libudev1                           1:3.2.2-devuan2.7
> > ii  udev                               1:3.2.2-devuan2.7

> >
> > It goes the other way, too.
> >
> > apt-get install udev=232-25+deb9u1 libudev1=232-25+deb9u1
> >
> > Still reboots. Just a config file remains. Not a problem.
> >
> > rc  eudev                              3.2.2-devuan2.7
> > ii  libudev1:amd64                     232-25+deb9u1
> > ii  udev                               232-25+deb9u1

> >
> > Among long term considerations on the advantages this move brings us,
> > the immediate catch is that by installing eudev you will not see
> > anymore the string "systemd" appear in your process list.
> >
> > For reports please use this thread (same subject!) or our git issues
> >
> > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/eudev
> >
> > Many thanks to all the Devuan team for the work being done towards
> > ASCII and in particular to Parazyd and Svante Signell for maintaining
> > the package and giving it the love it deserves.
> >
> > Wish you all a great week.
> >
> > ciao
>
>
> I just installed it on my laptop and after reboot all devices that have lost hotplugging notification ability (cdrom, sdcard and "some" usb devices) in the last years work again :-)
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Nik
>
>
>




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