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udev: Fix a small typo in command

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-udev" role="wrap" revision="sysv">
9 <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>udev</productname>
13 <productnumber>&systemd-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&systemd-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Udev from Systemd-&systemd-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev">
20 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The Udev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device
27 nodes.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&udev-fin-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&udev-fin-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38 </sect2>
39
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of Udev</title>
42
43 <para>Udev is part of the systemd-&systemd-version; package. Use
44 the systemd-&systemd-version;.tar.xz file as the source tarball.</para>
45
46 <para>Remove two unneeded groups,
47 <systemitem class="groupname">render</systemitem> and
48 <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
49 rules:</para>
50
51 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
52 -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para>Remove one udev rule requiring a full Systemd installation:</para>
55
56 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/systemd-sysctl/s/^/#/' -i rules.d/99-systemd.rules.in</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para>Prepare Udev for compilation:</para>
59
60<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
61cd build
62
63meson setup \
64 --prefix=/usr \
65 --buildtype=release \
66 -Dmode=release \
67 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
68 -Dlink-udev-shared=false \
69 -Dlogind=false \
70 -Dvconsole=false \
71 ..</userinput></screen>
72
73 <variablelist>
74 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
75
76 <varlistentry>
77 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
80 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
81 binaries.</para>
82 </listitem>
83 </varlistentry>
84
85 <varlistentry>
86 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
89 </para>
90 </listitem>
91 </varlistentry>
92
93 <varlistentry>
94 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
97 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
98 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 <varlistentry>
103 <term><parameter>-Dlink-udev-shared=false</parameter></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>This option prevents udev from linking to the internal
106 systemd shared library,
107 <systemitem class='library'>libsystemd-shared</systemitem>.
108 This library is designed to be shared by many Systemd components
109 and it's too overkill for a udev-only installation.</para>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
113 <varlistentry>
114 <term><parameter>-Dlogind=false -Dvconsole=false</parameter></term>
115 <listitem>
116 <para>These options prevent the generation of several udev rule
117 files belonging to the other Systemd components that we won't
118 install.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121 </variablelist>
122
123 <para>Only build the components needed for udev:</para>
124
125 <screen><userinput remap="make">ninja udevadm systemd-hwdb \
126 $(ninja -n | grep -Eo '(src/(lib)?udev|rules.d|hwdb.d)/[^ ]*') \
127 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .)</userinput></screen>
128
129 <para>Install the package:</para>
130
131 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -vm755 -d {/usr/lib,/etc}/udev/{hwdb,rules}.d
132install -vm755 -d /usr/{lib,share}/pkgconfig
133install -vm755 udevadm /usr/bin/
134install -vm755 systemd-hwdb /usr/bin/udev-hwdb
135ln -svfn ../bin/udevadm /usr/sbin/udevd
136cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/lib/
137install -vm644 ../src/libudev/libudev.h /usr/include/
138install -vm644 src/libudev/*.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
139install -vm644 src/udev/*.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
140install -vm644 ../src/udev/udev.conf /etc/udev/
141install -vm644 rules.d/* ../rules.d/README /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
142install -vm644 $(echo ../rules.d/*.rules | \
143 sed 's/70-power-switch.rules//') /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
144install -vm644 hwdb.d/* ../hwdb.d/{*.hwdb,README} /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/
145install -vm755 $(find src/udev -type f \
146 -not -name '*.*') /usr/lib/udev</userinput></screen>
147
148 <para>Install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS
149 environment:</para>
150
151<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.xz
152make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
153
154 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
155
156 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
157 component in the path. -->
158<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz \
159 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
160 -C /usr/share/man --wildcards '*/udev*' '*/libudev*' \
161 '*/systemd-'{hwdb,udevd.service}.8
162sed 's/systemd\(\\\?-\)/udev\1/' /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-hwdb.8 \
163 > /usr/share/man/man8/udev-hwdb.8
164sed 's|lib.*udevd|sbin/udevd|' \
165 /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-udevd.service.8 \
166 > /usr/share/man/man8/udevd.8
167rm /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-*.8</userinput></screen>
168
169 </sect2>
170
171 <sect2 id="conf-udev" role="configuration">
172 <title>Configuring Udev</title>
173
174 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
175 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
176 <secondary>configuring</secondary>
177 </indexterm>
178
179 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
180 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
181 </indexterm>
182
183 <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the
184 <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
185 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories.
186 <application>Udev</application> needs that information to be compiled
187 into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the
188 initial database:</para>
189
190<screen><userinput>udev-hwdb update</userinput></screen>
191
192 <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is
193 updated.</para>
194
195 </sect2>
196
197 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
198 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
199
200 <segmentedlist>
201 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
202 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
203 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
204
205 <seglistitem>
206 <seg>udevadm, udevd (symlink to udevadm), and udev-hwdb</seg>
207
208 <seg>libudev.so</seg>
209
210 <seg>/etc/udev and /usr/lib/udev</seg>
211 </seglistitem>
212 </segmentedlist>
213
214 <variablelist>
215 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
216 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
217 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
218 <varlistentry id="udevadm" revision="sysv">
219 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon,
222 provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for
223 uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents
224 for a given device</para>
225 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevadm">
226 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
230
231 <varlistentry id="udevd">
232 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket,
235 creates devices and runs the configured external programs in
236 response to these uevents</para>
237 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
238 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
239 </indexterm>
240 </listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry id="udev-hwdb">
244 <term><command>udev-hwdb</command></term>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>Updates or queries the hardware database.</para>
247 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev-hwdb">
248 <primary sortas="b-udev-hwdb">udev-hwdb</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 <varlistentry id="libudev">
254 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>A library interface to udev device information</para>
257 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev libudev">
258 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
259 </indexterm>
260 </listitem>
261 </varlistentry>
262
263 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
264 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>Contains Udev configuration files,
267 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
268 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
269 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
270 </indexterm>
271 </listitem>
272 </varlistentry>
273
274 </variablelist>
275
276 </sect2>
277
278</sect1>
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