Re: [ptxdist] Reporting difficulties to build usbutils package, RFC EUDEV?

[Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>]

On 1/13/24 08:22, Mariusz Pielat wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've tried to enable and build the usbutils package in PTXDIST-2023.07.0
> and it was not possible due to unfulfilled requirements. 
> 
> In the given PTXDIST version the usbutils rulefile points to version
> 015. According to usbutils/configure.ac <http://configure.ac> it
> requires libudev in version 196 or higher
> (https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/blob/v015/configure.ac#L20
> <https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/blob/v015/configure.ac#L20>).
> PTXDIST rulefile for the udev package points to version 182, so it's
> lower than required.
> 
> I can see that the problem exists for newer PTXDIST versions as well. 
> 
> So far I didn't work on that issue - just reporting.
> 

Hi,

Thanks for reporting. I think this has been missed for a long time, the
blame line for version 196 claims it's 11 years old...
usbutils seem to use it for the hwdb implementation.

This hasn't triggered because I think most targets are systemd based.
And that hwdb implementation should work fine. I have locally been
running eudev instead of udev as a drop in replacement for ages. And
that one works fine too.

I think the correct solution here is to use eudev (which is actively
developed still) and drop udev-182 (12 something years old by now?) or
just drop legacy builds without systemd altogether.

I'm not really a fan of the latter, but the argument against it
increases as time passes by.

I could post the eudev drop in replacement bump (probably needs some
more work), but I'm unsure if people in general thinks it's worth the
hassle.

Regards,
Christian

> Best Regards,
> Mariusz
>