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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, flameeyes@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:02:37
Message-Id: CAB9SyzQUv_S3MPEc7=rCbckoYuUjQLLwhV+X+RP4eX2d5QB7TQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass by William Hubbs
1 On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
3 >> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
4 >> > I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything currently
5 >> > in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
6 >>
7 >> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it under p.mask
8 >> until everything is using some common code — otherwise things _will_ break.
9 >
10 > Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it is
11 > possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev if
12 > that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
13
14 Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to
15 /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple
16 to me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?
17
18 --
19 Cheers,
20
21 Ben | yngwin
22 Gentoo developer
23 Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>