I really need some help here udevhotplugusbusbmount etc etc. 2031

Bob Hauck

Perhaps you should make your own CDs

Exactly - I doubt it was customized, but cerainly possible.

Precisely - on a per user basis perhaps?.. I don't know the exact particulars - but for ex; when I moved my kernel meta package up from 3.1r1 2.6.8-2-386 to 3.1r2 2.6.8-3-686, that file still reported 3.1r1

It was NOT! and never was - that i know - see John's bpo info

as stated ...bpo version only

Exactly -- though I've seen the list cached invar-lib-apt-lists, for whatever that's worth.

Precisely

It didn't

Hi Bob: Earlier you stated you have both udev and hotplug on Stable boxen -- are they BOTH installed to the same machine -- OR do some have udev and some have hotplug? was being installed about YOU MUST --PURGE HOTPLUG (or somesuch) ..well I did naturally, and all's well now. However I did notice one can manually pull in 'udev' without 'hal', yet removing hotplug seemed to pull them in together? (that last sentence is merely speculation). I recall I had to --purge some pkgs like udev and hal because I was then having issues with the transition from Xfree86 to Xorg - but finally got it all working :-) It seems like udev (from your excellent description) and it's rules w-symlinks are very much like the init.d system and the rc0-6.d and rcS.d files-scripts. If that is correct, then that will go a long way in helping me (fundamentally) understand the udev system.

Regards