udev does not install/upgrade on linux 2.4

[Jeff Waugh]

The udev package fails to install or upgrade on a linux 2.4 system, where it
should probably fail gracefully if possible. This affects upgrades from systems
running 2.4, and possibly more importantly, all currently stable uml systems
(2.6 uml is not regarded as stable yet).

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Can you provide a little more detail?

[Jeff Waugh (jdub)]

Well, to start with: /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.preinst (it refuses to upgrade, no
problem with install though; but that means it will break on any upgrade on a
2.4-based system)

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Interestingly, the preinst check causes the installation to fail outright -- but
if you disable that and let it install, there's another check in postinst that
doesn't start udev.

That seems a lot less abrasive ... just don't start udev, rather than screaming
and killing the upgrade.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

We have an all-new postinst in our new packages (hopefully uploading today) that
doesn't do this kind of stuff. If you don't have the kernel, it just doesn't
start and leaves your static /dev in place

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

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