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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-11-29 20:21:24 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-11-29 20:21:24 +0000
commit1a96a4ed261bf8bc2b2ccc895131e93a6ca2f84a (patch)
treebdd0cf14b63838426256c227fd768f57062b32f2 /chapter06
parente6b6261f915d3ce8a0cea8c30befe06f358ff6e2 (diff)
Reformat eudev to support jhalfs
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10800 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/creatingdirs.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/eudev.xml39
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml b/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml
index 2f5da5920..5572a62cc 100644
--- a/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/creatingdirs.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
<para>It is time to create some structure in the LFS file system. Create a
standard directory tree by issuing the following commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv /{bin,boot,etc/{opt,sysconfig},home,lib,mnt,opt}
+<screen><userinput>mkdir -pv /{bin,boot,etc/{opt,sysconfig},home,lib/firmware,mnt,opt}
mkdir -pv /{media/{floppy,cdrom},sbin,srv,var}
install -dv -m 0750 /root
install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
diff --git a/chapter06/eudev.xml b/chapter06/eudev.xml
index f66c669de..129d99d94 100644
--- a/chapter06/eudev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/eudev.xml
@@ -72,21 +72,18 @@ BLKID_LIBS='-L/tools/lib -lblkid' \
<para>Create some directories now that are needed for tests, but
will also be used as a part of installation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="test">mkdir -pv /lib/{firmware,udev}
-mkdir -pv /lib/udev/rules.d
+<screen><userinput remap="test">mkdir -pv /lib/udev/rules.d
mkdir -pv /etc/udev/rules.d</userinput></screen>
-<para>To test the results, run issue:</para>
+<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
- <para>Install the package and create the initial
- <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename> file:</para>
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-udevadm hwdb --update</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
-<para>Now, install the man pages:</para>
+ <para>Now, install the man pages:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../eudev-&eudev-version;-manpages.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share</userinput></screen>
@@ -98,6 +95,32 @@ make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="conf-eudev" role="configuration">
+ <title>Configuring Eudev</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="conf-eudev">
+ <primary sortas="a-Eudev">Eudev</primary>
+ <secondary>configuring</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <indexterm zone="conf-eudev">
+ <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the
+ <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories.
+ <application>Eudev</application> needs that information to be compiled
+ into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the
+ initial database:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>udevadm hwdb --update</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is
+ updated.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 id="contents-eudev" role="content">
<title>Contents of Eudev</title>