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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2011-12-25 20:41:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2011-12-25 20:41:52 +0100 |
| commit | dd8a93e0d8d4db1810e8d0bc438c19c97876b810 (patch) | |
| tree | e6e390763de74d35c089914cbb4bc76a0ffbced1 /NEWS | |
| parent | 80df994cc22eb7f98187df9bc2281c7fd7b96af7 (diff) | |
make: introduce --with-rootprefix=
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ udev 175 ======== -The default install location moved from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev, -to support systems without the / vs. /usr split. --libexecdir= -can still be configured to install things to /lib/udev. +The default configure options have changed, packages need to be adapted +otherwise udev will be installed in /usr. Example configuration options +are in INSTALL. + +The default prefix moved from / to /usr to support installations without +the historic / vs. /usr split. The default install location of the 'udevadm' tool moved from 'sbin' -to /usr/bin. --bindir= can still be configured to install it in -/sbin. Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm -in /usr/bin needs to be manually created if needed. +to /usr/bin. Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm +needs to be manually created if needed. Kernel modules are now loaded directly by linking udev to 'libkmod'. -The /sbin/modprobe tool is no longer executed by udev. +The 'modprobe' tool is no longer executed by udev. -The /sbin/blkid tool is no longer executed from udev rules. Udev links +The 'blkid' tool is no longer executed from udev rules. Udev links directly to libblkid now. -Firmware is loaded natively by udev now, the external firmware loading -binary is no longer used. +Firmware is loaded natively by udev now, the external 'firmware' binary +is no longer used. All built-in tools can be listed and tested with 'udevadm test-builtin'. |