From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SpDvB-0003nF-99 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:34:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F3A6E049A; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD4EE05EB for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD0371B4018; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FFE7DDE.6040107@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:33:50 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120607 Thunderbird/13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org CC: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= , yngwin@gentoo.org, flameeyes@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass References: <20120711191142.GA26844@linux1> <4FFDE8C6.40006@flameeyes.eu> <20120711234230.GA27226@linux1> <20120712091754.2480af4a@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <20120712091754.2480af4a@pomiocik.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 59689794-f168-471c-8862-80691a961feb X-Archives-Hash: f3f8c222bfa46e54e6736b3deb12c6e0 On 07/12/2012 12:17 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:01:21 +0800 > Ben de Groot wrote: >=20 >> On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Petten=C3=B2 wro= te: >>>> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto: >>>>> I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything >>>>> currently in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev. >>>> >>>> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it under >>>> p.mask until everything is using some common code =E2=80=94 otherwis= e >>>> things _will_ break. >>> >>> Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it is >>> possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev if >>> that's what you mean; I'll look into it though. >> >> Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to >> /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple >> to me, but maybe I'm overlooking something? >=20 > You are overlooking conflicts introduced through moving files without > updating vardb. >=20 Maybe that's package manager dependent. I think it should work fine with Portage though. --=20 Thanks, Zac