Re: [PATCH 4/4] packagegroup-core-boot: used udev-cache for sysvinit

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 01 July 2013 16:02:56 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 1 July 2013 15:58, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 01 July 2013 15:49:00 Burton, Ross wrote:
> >> On 28 June 2013 11:02, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> 
wrote:
> >> > I appreciate the intention here but I'm not sure if this is really the
> >> > appropriate place to put this; packagegroup-core-boot is supposed to
> >> > only
> >> > directly pull in the essentials required for booting. This will cause
> >> > problems for those people using alternative device managers (e.g.
> >> > busybox
> >> > mdev) as well.
> >> > 
> >> > I'm not sure where this should go, but adding it to VIRTUAL-
> >> > RUNTIME_dev_manager (in the distro config?) could work. Anyone else
> >> > have any better suggestion?
> >> 
> >> How about making udev RRECOMMEND udev-cache?
> > 
> > It's not that udev-cache might not be available, rather that packagegroup-
> > core-boot shouldn't have any kind of reference to it. In any case unless
> > udev is skipped somehow, an RRECOMMENDS on udev-cache will end up
> > building udev even if you haven't selected it in
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager so that won't help.
> 
> I mean add a recommends to the udev binary package itself, so you'll
> get udev-cache if you build udev (and keep the existing udev-selection
> logic as-is).

Right, that could work yes.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre