Re: [PATCH rdma-core] debian: Only run udevadm if the binary is available

[Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 27.12.2017, 13:26 -0700 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:41:35AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > When udevadm is not available (e.g. in a minimal chroot
> > environment),
> > the rdma-core package installation will print these warnings:
> > 
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: 33:
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: udevadm: not found
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: 34:
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: udevadm: not found
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: 35:
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/rdma-core.postinst: udevadm: not found
> > 
> > To silence these warnings, only run udevadm if this binary is
> > available.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
> >  debian/rdma-core.postinst | 8 +++++---
> >  debian/srptools.postinst  | 4 +++-
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Hurm. Some packages have this which test, others do not..
> 
> I'm confused how we get to a state where rdma-core can be installed
> without udev? Virtually the entire purpose of that package revolves
> around udev and systemd ... So are we missing a dependency?

Adding a dependency on udev is a solution too and is probably the
better solution.

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