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Last change on this file since f24a041 was f24a041, checked in by Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>, 11 months ago

udev: Remove two udev rules requiring a full systemd installation

Or they'll produce some error messages saying "cannot execute
systemd-sysctl or systemd-vconsole-setup".

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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 ..</userinput></screen>
70
71 <variablelist>
72 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
73
74 <varlistentry>
75 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
78 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
79 binaries.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 </varlistentry>
82
83 <varlistentry>
84 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
87 </para>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90
91 <varlistentry>
92 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
95 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
96 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99
100 <varlistentry>
101 <term><parameter>-Dlink-udev-shared=false</parameter></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>This option prevents udev from linking to the internal
104 systemd shared library,
105 <systemitem class='library'>libsystemd-shared</systemitem>.
106 This library is designed to be shared by many Systemd components
107 and it's too overkill for a udev-only installation.</para>
108 </listitem>
109 </varlistentry>
110 </variablelist>
111
112 <para>Only build the components needed for udev:</para>
113
114 <screen><userinput remap="make">ninja udevadm systemd-hwdb \
115 $(grep -o -E "^build (src/libudev|src/udev|rules.d|hwdb.d)[^:]*" \
116 build.ninja | awk '{ print $2 }') \
117 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .)</userinput></screen>
118
119 <para>Remove one udev rule file requiring a full Systemd
120 installation:</para>
121
122<screen><userinput remap="make">rm rules.d/90-vconsole.rules</userinput></screen>
123
124 <para>Install the package:</para>
125
126 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -vm755 -d {/usr/lib,/etc}/udev/{hwdb,rules}.d
127install -vm755 -d /usr/{lib,share}/pkgconfig
128install -vm755 udevadm /usr/bin/
129install -vm755 systemd-hwdb /usr/bin/udev-hwdb
130ln -sv ../bin/udevadm /usr/sbin/udevd
131cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/lib/
132install -vm644 ../src/libudev/libudev.h /usr/include/
133install -vm644 src/libudev/*.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
134install -vm644 src/udev/*.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
135install -vm644 ../src/udev/udev.conf /etc/udev/
136install -vm644 rules.d/* ../rules.d/{*.rules,README} /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
137install -vm644 hwdb.d/* ../hwdb.d/{*.hwdb,README} /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/
138install -vm755 $(find src/udev -type f | grep -F -v ".") /usr/lib/udev</userinput></screen>
139
140 <para>Install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS
141 environment:</para>
142
143<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.xz
144make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
145
146 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
147
148 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
149 component in the path. -->
150<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-253.tar.xz --strip-components=1 \
151 -C /usr/share/man --wildcards '*/udev*' '*/libudev*' \
152 '*/systemd-'{hwdb,udevd.service}.8
153sed 's/systemd\(\\\?-\)/udev-/' /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-hwdb.8 \
154 > /usr/share/man/man8/udev-hwdb.8
155sed 's|lib.*udevd|sbin/udevd|' \
156 /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-udevd.service.8 \
157 > /usr/share/man/man8/udevd.8
158rm /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-*.8</userinput></screen>
159
160 </sect2>
161
162 <sect2 id="conf-udev" role="configuration">
163 <title>Configuring Udev</title>
164
165 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
166 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
167 <secondary>configuring</secondary>
168 </indexterm>
169
170 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
171 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173
174 <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the
175 <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
176 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories.
177 <application>Udev</application> needs that information to be compiled
178 into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the
179 initial database:</para>
180
181<screen><userinput>udev-hwdb update</userinput></screen>
182
183 <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is
184 updated.</para>
185
186 </sect2>
187
188 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
189 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
190
191 <segmentedlist>
192 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
193 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
194 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
195
196 <seglistitem>
197 <seg>udevadm, udevd (symlink to udevadm), and udev-hwdb</seg>
198
199 <seg>libudev.so</seg>
200
201 <seg>/etc/udev and /usr/lib/udev</seg>
202 </seglistitem>
203 </segmentedlist>
204
205 <variablelist>
206 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
207 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
208 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
209 <varlistentry id="udevadm" revision="sysv">
210 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon,
213 provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for
214 uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents
215 for a given device</para>
216 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevadm">
217 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
218 </indexterm>
219 </listitem>
220 </varlistentry>
221
222 <varlistentry id="udevd">
223 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket,
226 creates devices and runs the configured external programs in
227 response to these uevents</para>
228 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
229 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231 </listitem>
232 </varlistentry>
233
234 <varlistentry id="udev-hwdb">
235 <term><command>udev-hwdb</command></term>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>Updates or queries the hardware database.</para>
238 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev-hwdb">
239 <primary sortas="b-udev-hwdb">udev-hwdb</primary>
240 </indexterm>
241 </listitem>
242 </varlistentry>
243
244 <varlistentry id="libudev">
245 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>A library interface to udev device information</para>
248 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev libudev">
249 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
250 </indexterm>
251 </listitem>
252 </varlistentry>
253
254 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
255 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>Contains Udev configuration files,
258 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
259 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
260 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
261 </indexterm>
262 </listitem>
263 </varlistentry>
264
265 </variablelist>
266
267 </sect2>
268
269</sect1>
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