From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:24:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120712122444.076a584f@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120711234808.GB27226@linux1>
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:48:08 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 04:59:11PM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > How do you plan to handle the following:
> > - foo installs an udev rule
> > - install foo with old udev
> > - upgrade udev
> >
> > are rules installed by foo used by new udev ?
>
> No, they wouldn't be; that is a good reason to question the value of
> the eclass itself. Maybe the correct way to do this is to forget the
> eclass and just file bugs against packages that break having them
> move their rules to the new location and set a dependency on the
> newer udev.
>
> This would have to be a rev bump for the broken packages.
this sounds heavy for only changing the location of a file, but that's
the only sane solution i can think of :(
A.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-11 19:11 [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass William Hubbs
2012-07-11 19:57 ` W. Trevor King
2012-07-11 20:57 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-07-11 23:42 ` William Hubbs
2012-07-11 23:43 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-07-12 5:01 ` Ben de Groot
2012-07-12 5:26 ` Zac Medico
2012-07-12 7:17 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-12 7:33 ` Zac Medico
2012-07-13 6:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-07-12 13:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-12 14:19 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-12 14:34 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-12 14:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-07-12 13:43 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-12 14:20 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-12 14:34 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-07-12 15:02 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-11 20:57 ` William Hubbs
2012-07-11 20:59 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-07-11 23:48 ` William Hubbs
2012-07-12 2:25 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-07-12 2:50 ` Zac Medico
2012-07-12 3:03 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-07-12 16:42 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-07-12 3:41 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-07-12 16:30 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-07-13 5:44 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-07-12 16:24 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2012-07-11 21:51 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-07-12 14:22 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-12 14:35 ` William Hubbs
2012-07-12 19:58 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-07-12 20:31 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-07-12 21:04 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-12 21:01 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-07-12 21:09 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-07-12 21:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2012-07-13 18:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
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