Changeset 501fe151

Timestamp:

06/15/2014 10:49:22 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 7.10, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gimp3, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

580988a

Parents:

2c1ab386

Message:

Re-word intro to udev extras

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@13247 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/sysutils/udev-extras.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

general/sysutils/udev-extras.xml

@@ -32 +32 @@
     <title>Introduction to Udev Extras</title>
 
-    <para><application>Udev</application> was indeed installed in LFS and there
-    is no reason to reinstall it unless the user is going to install a package
-    such as <application>UPower</application>. This installation of
-    <application>Udev</application> enables extra features which includes gudev,
-    a requirement for <application>UPower</application> and optionally used by
-    other packages.</para>
-
-    <para>Unlike any other package in the development version of BLFS book,
-    there is no set version of <application>Eudev</application> in this pages's
-    title. For consistency, there is no set version specified to download, as
-    well. Version update to <application>Eudev</application> in the development
-    LFS makes probable that the user's system may have an
+    <para><application>Eudev</application> was indeed installed in LFS and
+    there is no reason to reinstall it unless the user is going to install a
+    package such as <application>UPower</application> that needs libdudev.
+    These instructions enable building libgudev and also optionally create gir
+    data for <application>Eudev</application>.  </para>
+
+    <para>Unlike other packages in BLFS, there is no set version of
+    <application>Eudev</application> in this page's title and no set version
+    specified for download. Version updates to <application>Eudev</application>
+    makes it possible that the user's system may have an
     <application>Eudev</application> version different from the one in the
-    development LFS. Therefore, users should download and use the version of
+    current LFS book. Therefore, users should use the version of
     <application>Eudev</application> their computer currently uses. With few
     exceptions, the BLFS team has no experience updating (or reverting to an
@@ -56 +54 @@
     <caution>
       <para>
-         If you are using the development version of BLFS, the Eudev version
-         on this page may be higher than the one you used for building LFS.
-         Newer versions of Eudev may occasionally be incompatible with former
-         ones, either because they require some new options to be enabled
-         in the kernel or because they change the way rules are parsed. You
-         may want to consult
-         <ulink url="http:wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade">the Gentoo
-         page</ulink> about upgrading Udev. Another alternative is
-         to run the instructions below with the Eudev version on your
-         current system.
+         If you are using a version of BLFS different from your currently
+         installed base LFS system, you should use the Eudev source from your
+         LFS build.  Newer versions of Eudev may occasionally be incompatible
+         with former ones, either because they require some new options to be
+         enabled in the kernel or because they change the way rules are parsed.
+         For in-system updates to Eudev, you may want to consult <ulink
+         url="http:wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade">the Gentoo page</ulink>
+         about upgrading Udev. 
       </para>
     </caution>