Bug 831347

Summary:	sys-fs/udev-249 upstream deprecation of `udevadm hwdb` no consistently reflected
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo systemd Team <systemd>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Cedric Sodhi 2022-01-17 10:23:00 UTC

Upstream has deprecated the `udevadm` subcommand `hwdb` in favor of a tool called `systemd-hwdb` four years ago and retains `udevadmn hwdb` for backwards compat [1]

OTOH sys-fs/udev comes without `systemd-hwdb` and while the deprecated `udevadmn hwdb` (still) works, it isn't documented. If Gentoo wants to keep the "for backwards compat" version, at least there should be mention in the manpage and the online documentation. Or, perhaps, ship systemd-hwdb?

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5639df9a80a828f66ac1ab703dd4fe21a0fc1d19/src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c#L558

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-09-18 01:24:39 UTC

sys-apps/systemd-utils[udev] installs systemd-hwdb.