issues with latest mer release

[Maurice de la Ferte]

Hi all, 

On August 10, 2012 at 7:29 PM Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> last tuesday there was a release of mer core, so, now obs build against it.
>
> unfortunately it seems to break the x86 generic adaption, live usb images
> won't boot correctly anymore, this is due to the merge of udev inside systemd
> (i think)
>
> this means the next auto generated plasma active devel images won't work
>
>
> the devices under /dev won't be created, so it's unable to mount the root
> filesystem and finish the boot.
>
> iirc there was some work on a fix at
> https://build.pub.meego.com/project/show?project=home%3Asage%3Amer%3Ax86-fix
>
> unfortunately doesn't seem to work, it still can't create the devices.
> during the image creation it was also still complaining of some not found
> exectuables, suck as insmod, modprobe etc.
> i fixed that in a branch there
> https://build.pub.meego.com/package/show?package=mkinitrd&project=home%3Amart%3Abranches%3Ahome%3Asage%3Amer%3Ax86-
> fix
>
> but the main problem still persists. does anybody have any idea about it?
> 
 
After comparing the package lists between last week and current images, I
found out package 'MAKEDEV' is missing on current PA Mer devel Image. So
it looks like a package group was changed or a dependency got lost.
 
Cheers,
 
Maurice