Eudev

This material is work-in-progress ... This is almost complete but needs testing that it works when followed as a step by step guide. (Last edited by Zcrayfish on 22 Sep 2023.)

eudev is a device manager that provides a drop in replacement for systemd udev. It is therefor recommended for full blown desktop environments.

Installation

The easy way to setup eudev is throught the setup script. For custom installation see the manually section. Note that this is only recommended for advanced users.

Setup Script

The alpine-conf package privides setup-devd to easily install and setup device managers.

Install alpine-conf if not already.

# apk add alpine-conf

Setup eudev.

# setup-devd udev

Manually

You need to install eudev itself and the udev services.

# apk add eudev udev-init-scripts

If you already have a device manager installed you need to remove it before you start eudev.

Then enable the services.

# rc-update add udev sysinit # rc-update add udev-trigger sysinit # rc-update add udev-settle sysinit # rc-update add udev-postmount default

If you are not running in a chroot you will also want to start eudev.

# rc-service udev start # rc-service udev-trigger start # rc-service udev-settle start # rc-service udev-postmount start

Remove

Warning: Disabling eudev without setting up a different device manager may cause programms to break

If you are not running in a chroot you need to stop the service first.

# rc-service udev stop # rc-service udev-postmount stop

Then disable the services.

# rc-update delete udev sysinit # rc-update delete udev-trigger sysinit # rc-update delete udev-settle sysinit # rc-update delete udev-postmount default

You might also want to uninstall the packages since they are not used anymore.

# apk del eudev udev-init-scripts

See Also

• Device Managers
• Gentoo wiki eudev
• Archwiki udev