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diff --git a/metadata/news/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade.en.txt b/metadata/news/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9c37eeeaf4bf --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade/2014-02-25-udev-upgrade.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210 +Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2014-02-25 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: <sys-fs/udev-210 + +The options CONFIG_FHANDLE and CONFIG_NET are now required in the kernel. +You will be warned of them if they are missing while you upgrade to +>=sys-fs/udev-210 by the package manager. +See the package's README at /usr/share/doc/udev-210/ for more optional +kernel options. + +The most reliable way of disabling the new network interface scheme is still +the kernel parameter "net.ifnames=0" since overriding the +80-net-name-slot.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ no longer works since upstream +renamed the file to /lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules +The actual configuration is at /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link, which +you can override in /etc/systemd/network/ +So, to clarify, you can override the new .rules file or the .link file in /etc +but using the kernel parameter is the most consistent way. + +Since both the systemd-udevd executable and the network configuration is stored +at /lib/systemd, using a too wide INSTALL_MASK would be a mistake. + +[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade#udev_208_to_210 +[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames |