Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-06 20:23:17

My searching around for ndevfs-related stuff this morning resulted in my noticing that Arch's version of udev is outdated. This is interesting, because IIRC version 0.70 was in the testing repo prior to the big move, during libtool-slay. But now udev has no place in the testing repo. What happened? Shouldn't we be using the current version?

dtw · 2005-11-06 20:50:18

apparently not!

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-06 21:55:38

Uhh... Why not?

iBertus · 2005-11-06 22:13:57

Perhaps it hasn't been placed in a repo yet because of some issue unknown to us. ?

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-07 02:05:45

Lessee... Gentoo seems to be on 0.70 right now. But at any rate, I don't understand why 0.72 shouldn't be in Testing.

Dusty · 2005-11-07 02:23:24

Gullible Jones wrote:

Lessee... Gentoo seems to be on 0.70 right now. But at any rate, I don't understand why 0.72 shouldn't be in Testing.

you're right, you don't. Doesn't look like anybody does either. Its entirely possible that the maintainer is busy. Then again, maybe its broken like everyone says. Easy to test, eh? build it yourself and see if it breaks, right?

Dusty

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-07 02:45:02

Hey, sorry. :?

(I don't remember anyone saying it was broken... Well, I suppose I should have done more googling.)

xerverius · 2005-11-07 08:07:11

Well the changelog from 0.68 -> 0.72 is quite big. So when the package maintainers has some spare time, it's time for an update. If it's not broken ofcourse.

Gr. Xerverius

Snowman · 2005-11-07 23:14:32

udev 071 just hit testing.

dtw · 2005-11-08 10:09:18

I just wantwed to say that it should be obvious, based on past experience, that updating an maintaining the udev pkg is not an exact science and that it is prone to delays. It is almost never up to date and the reason is normally that there are so many changes from one release to the nxt that the dev just doesn't have time to update it quickly. SO it really is a question of patience on this one

xerverius · 2005-11-08 18:31:16

It's better to have a good working udev packages that is a bit outdated, then the latest version, but the "old" package was almost 2 months old. So it's good to see a new version is in testing now.

tpowa · 2005-11-08 18:37:58

if someone asks, 074 is out since yesterday but it's somehow bugged on startup and as long this is not fixed no update to >071 will happen.
greetings
tpowa

Gullible Jones · 2005-11-08 21:58:02

Blarrgh... If it's the only dynamic /dev system that kernel 2.6 supports now, why don't they try to make the releases a bit more stable?

tpowa · 2005-11-08 22:14:18

the functionalty of 074 is not really affected, at least i don't see a problem, but it causes ugly logging messages during startup, that's really bad and i don't know how to fix it, gentoo semms to have the same problem. Perhaps we have to wait for 075

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#1 2005-11-06 20:23:17

Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#2 2005-11-06 20:50:18

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#3 2005-11-06 21:55:38

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#4 2005-11-06 22:13:57

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#5 2005-11-07 02:05:45

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#6 2005-11-07 02:23:24

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#7 2005-11-07 02:45:02

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#8 2005-11-07 08:07:11

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#9 2005-11-07 23:14:32

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#10 2005-11-08 10:09:18

Re: Udev outdated: current -> 0.68, should be 0.72

#11 2005-11-08 18:31:16

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#12 2005-11-08 18:37:58

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#13 2005-11-08 21:58:02

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