Re: gudev from my grandpa

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 08/25/11 13:44, Craig Keogh wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:34 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 13:23 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>   David Zeuthen pointed out that gudev in jhbuild (3.2 modulesets) is
>>>> several years old (from 08-Dec-2004)
>>> For the records,
>>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-deps-3.2.modules says module="utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-147.tar.bz2" version="147".
>>> That's 10-Nov-2009 according to
>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
>>>
>>> 047 is from 08-Dec-2004.
>>   Ah, sorry! My dyslexia kicks-in sometimes. However, thats still
>> pretty old so my question remains.
>>
> gudev is packaged in the one tarball with udev. Therefore I assumed that
> gudev version 147 requires >= udev 147. udev 147 was selected so JHBuild
> supports as many distros as possible. I don't want to alienate potential
> developers because their distro is a tiny bit old.
>
> Distro's with udev 147:
> Ubuntu >= 9.10 karmic
> Fedora >= 13 goddard
> Mint >= 8 helena
> openSUSE >= 11.3
> Red Hat >= RHEL-6
> Mandriva >= 2010.1 
>
I am currently jhbuilding under Ubuntu lucid and alredy there, lots of
modules get skipped. Mostly because of libusb>=1.0 requirement. Lucid
has 0.1.12 (without a pc file in the -dev package) :/. Imho not a lot of
stuff is anymore buildable under karmic.

Stefan