Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 048 release

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

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On Dec 08, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> Yes, the "system" version of libsysfs is not always the same one that
> udev wants.  Over the past year or so, sometimes it has varied a lot.
> Hopefully now we are properly synced up, but I still trust our own
> version, not any other version (this really matters on boxes that have
> older versions of libsysfs, like SLES 9 and friends.)
What's wrong with letting distributions deal with this? If they package
udev they can package libsysfs as well.

> > It makes harder packaging udev if someone will try generate udev in 
> > for example rpm form with debug info in separated udev-debug package.
> I'm sure those who package up rpms of udev have dealt with this properly
> somehow.  For the rest of the world, I'd prefer to keep the current way.
I doubt that there are many people installing udev from source on a
distribution which does not support it. And if they do, they have to
change so many things that I doubt stripping installed binaries is going
to be a problem.

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ciao, |
Marco | [9659 cawOtuyEEoELY]

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