[RFC] replace eudev with udev - #62100
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…note.dlopen based on the UAPI standard: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/elf_dlopen_metadata/ for now, this check is optional, and only run if python is available from hostmakedepends. When run, it reads the .note.dlopen section and emits required shlibs for dependencies with the required or recommended priority. Dependencies without a priority are assumed to be required.
for migration to udev
adapt hwdb hook to use udev-hwdb if available
repo renamed back to dracut, which changed the checksum
not rebuilding these packages at this time because it would be expensive (chromium, webengine) and the eudev and udev libudev.so are abi-identical. packages will be rebuilt over time and eventually we can rebuild the last stragglers. provides=eudev on udev prevents dependency errors.
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We've been using
eudevas our default device file manager since 2014. Lately, this project seems to have lost all development effort, with the latest release in 2023 and the latest commit in 2024. This means we don't get fixes or updates to any udev rules packaged with (e)udev, we don't get updates for handling new kernel behaviours, and more. There shouldn't any loss of functionality by switching.Several other distros that don't use systemd for init also use udev:
Additionally, eudev was intended to be a temporary fork until systemd supported non-glibc systems (ref), and musl is now supported by upstream systemd.
This PR also introduces handling for notating
dlopen()ed libraries with ELF notes (UAPI standard), which at this time requirespython3inhostmakedependsto run.Testing the changes
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