Eudev in gnome-team [Was: Core-updates coordination and plans]

[Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

Hi Vivien,

> The eudev package has been touched on gnome-team

I reviewed the patches but do not believe they solve Bug#63508 or
Bug#63787.

That issue, stated succinctly, arises because configure.ac sets the
Makefile variable $(udevrulesdir) to the store output [1] while custom
rules like mine [2] live in the global folder /etc/udev/rules.d. After
some analysis, the upstream sources are best patched here. [3]

A explanation for why the flags to ./configure are ineffective can be
found here. [4]

> Could you try and rebase your work on gnome-team, to see whether it
> works?

Unfortunately, that rebuild takes two days on my system. Absent an
insight that your patches will fix the bug, it is too much effort.

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/blob/611b6fbae2cca9ceeacb820befb3a0e8caec88b8/configure.ac#L180
[2] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/a6962d1414d11040072f0e79ffde354fa523137a/service/udev-rules-net-name-mac.scm#L4-L9
[3] https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/blob/611b6fbae2cca9ceeacb820befb3a0e8caec88b8/src/udev/Makefile.am#L10
[4] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63508#26