Re: [PATCH] udev: sync udev rules directories with systemd units directories

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 05:46:56AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 14, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > /usr/lib/udev/rules.d. The reason is not because of udev, but other
> > packages which install their rules in /lib/udev/rules.d need to be fixed
> > to install them in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d.
> As the maintainer of udev for a distribution which still supports a 
> standalone /usr I fail to see how this can be an issue.
> Why should an upstream package install something in 
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ if no distribution supports this directory?

I'm not sure if you are asking me or Kay, but here is what we are
running into.

The default configuration of udev-186 installs its rules in
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d. When users upgrade to this udev, they will still
have packages on their system that install rules in /lib/udev/rules.d.
Udev needs to keep this directory as a place for rules for a while for
that reason.

With the /usr merge coming, I'm thinking that packages that install
rules in /lib/udev/rules.d will have to be fixed to install them in
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d eventually, but until then, we should retain
support in udev to read from both places.

Thoughts?

William

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