[Grml] GRML's udev and Debian's udev

[Michael Whapples]

Thanks for the info. I crossed my fingers and had a working GRML CD to 
hand and did the udev upgrade, not a problem there.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com>  [20091024 12:41]:
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>> I have been intending to ask this for sometime but never quite got round
>> to it.
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>> On my GRML HD installation when I have been upgrading packages I keep
>> getting a conflict involving udev. It seems to be that libgudev
>> (probably is something to do with the gnome packages I have installed)
>> depends on libudev0>= 146 but GRML provides libudev0 0.141-1grml.04.
>> This raises a few questions:
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>> * Would it be safe for me to upgrade to the Debian version of udev, I
>> have held off as udev is quite core to the system and I don't want to
>> really mess up my system.
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> Shouldn't cause any problems on harddisk installations.
> Though having a *working* grml CD/USB-pen available is always a good
> idea. ;)
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>> * Why does there seem to be a difference in the Debian package numbering
>> and the GRML numbering (GRML seems to be providing 0.XXX where as Debian
>> seems to have XXX, surely the versions don't differ as much as this
>> suggests).
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> There's no big change, it's just that the numbering scheme changed
> in Debian lately. It used to be something like 0.141-1 for Debian
> and 0.141-1grml.03 for the grml package, though as soon as we rebase
> to Debian's 146-6 it will become something like 146-6grml.01 as well
> then.
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>> * Would it be possible for GRML to provide a suitable updated udev
>> package to match the Debian one?
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> Post grml 2009.10 sure, though we are holding udev back for a number
> of reasons for the current stable release.
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> regards,
> -mika-
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