[Pkg-xen-devel] About hotplug/udev

[Guido Trotter]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:16:23PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

> sure? I think that changes nothing, because sarge users will normaly have 
> hotplug and udev installed. even if you at say: "I depend on udev >= version 
> xyz OR hotplug" the dependency is satisfied, because hotplug is installed and 
> that is enough. it's a OR dependcy, no matter if you first mention udev or 
> hotplug...
> 
> or is it really handled diffrently in debians dependency system?
> 

The order matters in the fact that the first one is always tried before going to
the second, AFAIK. Anyway it's not really important, I just had udev before
because I expect it to be the one really used by most people... But we need the >=
because otherwise it could be installed on a system with an old udev, and
without hotplug (since it's an or...)!

> ack! I think more systems will be running sarge + xen then etch/testing + xen 
> for a long while...
> 
> I don't believe that the next release is really in december. i would even bet 
> on that :)
> 

We shouldn't count or bet on it anyway... We really have to try to stick to the
RM schedule or we risk delaying the release ourselves! It might not happen in
december, but we have to be ready when they say so, for the sake of our cars!
(RMs are not as evil as policy people...) ;) (<- I guess the ones we really
don't want against is debian-legal, though.... For now no problem!) ;)

> I would like that your solution is working, but I thinK there is no real 
> difference between:
> 
> "hotplug | udev (>= 0.059)" (what I used till now)
> and
> "udev (>= 0.0XY) | hotplug" (what you suggested)
> 
> (where XY is the first udev version that provides hotplug).
> 

There would be if udev (>= 0.059) was fulfillable by sarge udev... But it seems
not (I hadn't checked before, just trusted what sayed on the list), so I think
you're right...

Guido