.rules to .act

[Obarun]

hello,
First, thank you for your hard work, it's very appreciate.
I'm working on a archlinux based system with Runit as services manager and obviously without systemd. For the moment i use eudev.
I have made a pkgbuild based on https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=vdev-git for arch and change some files for example libudev.pc to better correspond to the archlinux structure, added license, create a good symlink, etc..... I will provide as soon as possible on my github.
So i try to make a hook for building an initramfs to run earlier vdev. If i understand you're concept i need to replace .rules provide by eudev by a .act and include it in my hook. But i'm little be confused when i look your example of .act. For example in the 50-udev-defaults.rules i have this KERNEL== or this GOTO=. How can i know your corresponding option? Do you have a parser to convert directly .rules to .act?
Onemore when i try to compile the tools udev_to_vdev with the makefile i have this error :
g++ -o udev2vdev
g++: fatal error: no input files
May be i make a mistake.

Sorry for my english and once again thank you for your work.

[jcnelson]

Hi @Obarun,

Vdev does not use udev rules at all. Vdev is a lot more like mdev than udev--you use .act files to identify a class of device events and the program(s) for vdev to run to handle them. For example, the file example/actions/loop.act matches all device-add events from the disk subsystem whose names start with loop and end in a number. When it finds such an event, vdev exports a few environment variables and runs the permissions.sh helper program (installed /lib/vdev/) to set its ownership to root.disk and mode to 0660. More details can be found in https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/blob/master/how-to-test.md.

The udev2vdev tool currently does nothing. If you want to add new behaviors, you'll need to create new .act files.

Thanks,
Jude

[suedi]

I oogled your PKGBUILD for vdev and saw that you had lvm2 as depends

I think that should be optdepends
vdev can run without it.

Logiacallly it may put device-mapper in optdepends also

Mr Nelson, please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT
Ahha the referenced PKGBUILD was fbt's so my comment may or may not apply to your PKGBUILD

[jcnelson]

@suedi is right. lvm2 is an optional dependency. You only need it if you want vdev to handle LVM volumes. Similarly, vdev only needs device-mapper if you make use of it already.

[fbt]

Fair enough, I've moved both packages to optdepends.

@Obarun wanna email me or comment on the AUR page for me to merge the improvements?

[Obarun]

thank for your reply, i understand a little bit how to do my work.
@fbt you can find my pkgbuild here https://github.com/Obarun/obarun-pkgbuild/tree/master/vdev-obarun

[fbt]

@Obarun thx, I've incorporated some of your work into the PKGBUILD (and added you as a contributor).

On that note, @jcnelson, I think the example target needs some more flexibility. We need RUNDIR and LOGDIR. They are currently hardcoded as being under PREFIX in the config.

[fbt]

I've made a pull request: #73

[Obarun]

@fbt Great thank for this features

[fbt]

@Obarun btw you go over the .pc file with sed, but it doesn't seem to be necessary at all, as without it the result is sane:

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=/usr/lib
includedir=/usr/include

[Obarun]

@fbt yep i saw it