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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  3. "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  4. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  5. %general-entities;
  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-system-eudev" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="eudev.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>eudev</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&eudev-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&eudev-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Eudev-&eudev-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Eudev">Eudev</primary>
  17. </indexterm>
  18. <sect2 role="package">
  19. <title/>
  20. <para>The Eudev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device
  21. nodes.</para>
  22. <segmentedlist>
  23. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  24. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  25. <seglistitem>
  26. <seg>&eudev-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  27. <seg>&eudev-ch6-du;</seg>
  28. </seglistitem>
  29. </segmentedlist>
  30. </sect2>
  31. <sect2 role="installation">
  32. <title>Installation of Eudev</title>
  33. <para>First, fix a test script:</para>
  34. <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -r -i 's|/usr(/bin/test)|\1|' test/udev-test.pl</userinput></screen>
  35. <para>Prepare Eudev for compilation:</para>
  36. <screen><userinput remap="configure">BLKID_CFLAGS=-I/tools/include \
  37. BLKID_LIBS='-L/tools/lib -lblkid' \
  38. ./configure --prefix=/usr \
  39. --bindir=/sbin \
  40. --sbindir=/sbin \
  41. --libdir=/usr/lib \
  42. --sysconfdir=/etc \
  43. --libexecdir=/lib \
  44. --with-rootprefix= \
  45. --with-rootlibdir=/lib \
  46. --enable-split-usr \
  47. --enable-libkmod \
  48. --enable-rule_generator \
  49. --enable-keymap \
  50. --disable-introspection \
  51. --disable-gudev \
  52. --disable-gtk-doc-html \
  53. --with-firmware-path=/lib/firmware </userinput></screen>
  54. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  55. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  56. <para>Create some directories now that are needed for tests, but
  57. will also be used as a part of installation:</para>
  58. <screen><userinput remap="test">mkdir -pv /lib/{firmware,udev}
  59. mkdir -pv /lib/udev/rules.d
  60. mkdir -pv /etc/udev/rules.d</userinput></screen>
  61. <para>To test the results, run issue:</para>
  62. <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  63. <para>Install the package and creat the initial
  64. <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename> file:</para>
  65. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
  66. udevadm hwdb --update</userinput></screen>
  67. <para>Now, install the man pages:</para>
  68. <screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../eudev-&eudev-version;-manpages.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share</userinput></screen>
  69. <para>Finally, install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS
  70. environment:</para>
  71. <screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.bz2
  72. make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
  73. </sect2>
  74. <sect2 id="contents-eudev" role="content">
  75. <title>Contents of Eudev</title>
  76. <segmentedlist>
  77. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  78. <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
  79. <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
  80. <seglistitem>
  81. <seg><!-- These are in /lib/udev and not to be called by the user:
  82. accelerometer, ata_id, cdrom_id, collect, mtd_probe,
  83. scsi_id, v4l_id,--> udevadm and udevd</seg>
  84. <seg>libudev.so</seg>
  85. <seg>/etc/udev, /lib/udev, and /lib/firmware</seg>
  86. </seglistitem>
  87. </segmentedlist>
  88. <variablelist>
  89. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  90. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  91. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  92. <!--
  93. <varlistentry id="ata_id">
  94. <term><command>ata_id</command></term>
  95. <listitem>
  96. <para>Provides Udev with a unique string and
  97. additional information (uuid, label) for an ATA drive</para>
  98. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev ata_id">
  99. <primary sortas="b-ata_id">ata_id</primary>
  100. </indexterm>
  101. </listitem>
  102. </varlistentry>
  103. <varlistentry id="cdrom_id">
  104. <term><command>cdrom_id</command></term>
  105. <listitem>
  106. <para>Provides Udev with the capabilities of a
  107. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive</para>
  108. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev cdrom_id">
  109. <primary sortas="b-cdrom_id">cdrom_id</primary>
  110. </indexterm>
  111. </listitem>
  112. </varlistentry>
  113. <varlistentry id="collect">
  114. <term><command>collect</command></term>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>Given an ID for the current uevent and a list of
  117. IDs (for all target uevents), registers the current ID
  118. and indicates whether all target IDs have been registered</para>
  119. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev collect">
  120. <primary sortas="b-collect">collect</primary>
  121. </indexterm>
  122. </listitem>
  123. </varlistentry>
  124. <varlistentry id="scsi_id">
  125. <term><command>scsi_id</command></term>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>Provides Udev with a unique SCSI identifier
  128. based on the data returned from sending a SCSI INQUIRY command to
  129. the specified device</para>
  130. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev scsi_id">
  131. <primary sortas="b-scsi_id">scsi_id</primary>
  132. </indexterm>
  133. </listitem>
  134. </varlistentry>
  135. -->
  136. <varlistentry id="udevadm">
  137. <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
  138. <listitem>
  139. <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon,
  140. provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for
  141. uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents
  142. for a given device</para>
  143. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev udevadm">
  144. <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
  145. </indexterm>
  146. </listitem>
  147. </varlistentry>
  148. <varlistentry id="udevd">
  149. <term><command>udevd</command></term>
  150. <listitem>
  151. <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket,
  152. creates devices and runs the configured external programs in
  153. response to these uevents</para>
  154. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev udevd">
  155. <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
  156. </indexterm>
  157. </listitem>
  158. </varlistentry>
  159. <varlistentry id="libudev">
  160. <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
  161. <listitem>
  162. <para>A library interface to udev device information</para>
  163. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev libudev">
  164. <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
  165. </indexterm>
  166. </listitem>
  167. </varlistentry>
  168. <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
  169. <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>Contains Udev configuration files,
  172. device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
  173. <indexterm zone="ch-system-eudev etc-udev">
  174. <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
  175. </indexterm>
  176. </listitem>
  177. </varlistentry>
  178. </variablelist>
  179. </sect2>
  180. </sect1>