Bug 445660 – sys-fs/cryptsetup - Depends on udev, but it does not need it.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) 2012-12-02 17:04:19 UTC]

I do wonder why cryptsetup does depends on udev when it does work perfecly fine without it both at build and run time. I do run mdev-enabled system for months without issues, with luks-encrypted rootfs on lvm.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Ulenrich 2012-12-02 17:39:56 UTC]

mdev should be an instance of virtual/udev then ?

[Comment 2 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) 2012-12-02 17:46:07 UTC]

But still, it does not require even mdev, mdev is a agent, not even a deamon, which is executed on add/remove events. Even static dev will do.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2012-12-05 02:00:46 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> mdev should be an instance of virtual/udev then ?

No, he is asking why cryptsetup has a dependency on udev at all.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2012-12-21 05:16:19 UTC]

in the past it called udevsettle.  i don't think it linked against udev, but to be safe, i just dropped it from 1.4.3.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2012-12-21 05:17:11 UTC]

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Drop udev dep since cryptsetup no longer calls udevsettle at runtime
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/cryptsetup/cryptsetup-1.4.3.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8