upgrade udev on Ubuntu 14.04

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 13 March 2015 at 05:33, Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang at huawei.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm a Docker user, for some reason, I need to use Docker on Ubuntu 14.04
> with devicemapper driver, but we got a serious problem because udev on
> Ubuntu 14.04 is too old to support sync, see details:
> https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/4036
>
> Seems no one ever got around of this problem, I wonder if we can upgrade
> udev
> on Ubuntu 14.04 in a smooth way, e.g. from udev 204 to udev 208.
> (RHEL7 with udev 208 don't have this problem, so I assume udev 208 would
> work)
>
> Any help would be very appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Regards,
> Qiang


Hi!

The udev version 208 is on Utopic... You might want to try to manually
backport it!

It is easy... You just need to add 1 line at your Trusty's
/etc/apt/sources.list file (starting with "deb-src http.... utopic main")
and then:

apt-get update
apt-get build-dep udev
apt-get source udev
cd udev-208
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us

Currently, I'm maintaining a few packages for Trusty, here:
https://launchpad.net/~martinx/+archive/ubuntu/ig

Also, the following blog post might help you:

https://opensourcehacker.com/2013/03/20/how-to-backport-packages-on-ubuntu-linux/

I don't know if it will work but at least, you can give it a try on a spare
machine...

Best,
Thiago
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