Version bumped. Now all helper-apps are merged into binary udevadm. This needs to be included when building initramfs'. Using udevadm for providing /dev/root link. Added special warning for Bug #190994. No longer install udevstart, it is not needed for 2.6.15 and newer and just confuses people.

Package-Manager: portage-2.1.3.19

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diff --git a/sys-fs/udev/files/write_root_link_rule b/sys-fs/udev/files/write_root_link_rule
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This script should run before doing udevtrigger at boot.
+# It will create a rule matching the device directory / is on, and
+# creating /dev/root symlink pointing on its device node.
+#
+# This is especially useful for hal looking at /proc/mounts containing
+# a line listing /dev/root as device:
+#   /dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+# Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
+#
+# (c) 2007 Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
+
+DEV=$(udevadm info --device-id-of-file=/)
+if [ $? = 0 ]; then
+	MAJOR="${DEV% *}"
+	MINOR="${DEV#* }"
+
+	[ -d /dev/.udev/rules.d ] || mkdir -p /dev/.udev/rules.d
+	RULES=/dev/.udev/rules.d/10-root-link.rules
+
+	echo "# Created by /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule" > "${RULES}"
+	echo "# This rule should create /dev/root as link to real root device." >> "${RULES}"
+	echo "SUBSYSTEM==\"block\", ENV{MAJOR}==\"$MAJOR\", ENV{MINOR}==\"$MINOR\", SYMLINK+=\"root\"" >> "${RULES}"
+fi
+