[Pkg-xen-devel] About hotplug/udev

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 08:15 schrieb 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...

sorry for beeing kind of offline for the last two days... but to continue on 
this: what is our solution now?

should we conflicht with udev (< 0.059) or not?

--Ralph

>
> Guido
>
>
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