Bug 6388

Summary: udev bootscripts require 'udevadm', which is in optional package udev-utils
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Bols Ewhac <bols.ewhac>
Component: coreAssignee: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, Qi.Chen
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: 1.7   
Hardware: Other   
OS: arm   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Bols Ewhac 2014-05-30 01:52:37 UTC 
The bootscripts in the udev package run the command 'udevadm'.  However, the udev recipe shunts 'udevadm' over to the package udev-utils, which is then placed in udev's RRECOMMENDS list.  Thus, if you enable the build variable NO_RECOMMENDATIONS, udev-utils will not be installed (unless named explicitly), and the bootscripts, unable to find 'udevadm', will report errors:

INIT: version 2.88 booting
Starting udev
udevd[168]: starting version 182
/etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 103: udevadm: command not found
/etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 108: udevadm: command not found
/etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 109: udevadm: command not found
Comment 1 Chen Qi 2014-06-03 06:58:57 UTC 
There's a patch from David on the mailing list to add udev-utils to RDEPENDS of udev.

I think it's an appropriate fix.

//Chen Qi
Comment 2 Saul Wold 2014-06-05 14:37:13 UTC 
The udevadm should really be part of the core udev package since it's really integral to booting with udev.