Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: udev-rules.eclass

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/07/12 03:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:01:21 +0800 Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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 —
>>>> otherwise 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?
> 
> You are overlooking conflicts introduced through moving files
> without updating vardb.
> 

There were no vdb issues when baselayout-1 was migrated to
baselayout-2, and it rewrote a whackload of stuff iirc...

Updating vdb shouldn't be an issue here, as long as pkg_postinst
doesn't crash mid-stream.  Is the vdb common between package managers
or does each one have a different solution?



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