[arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like this explaination a little better than "our rules are stock
>> too", but I'm still undecided. I'd be interested in hearing some other
>> opinions here... Dan, you usually have good input... opinion?
>
> Without completely understanding udev as a whole, but understanding
> system customization, I can say this. If this file is meant to be
> modified by end users, it should definitely go in /etc. The current
> file there says this at the top, however: "do not edit this file, it
> will be overwritten on update". So what is the case here? If this
> comment is wrong, it should get killed. If this file is meant to be
> edited, it should certainly be in the package's backup array.


> Going back further on this thread, can anyone explain what this
> Arch-specific ruleset does that the upstream ruleset doesn't already
> do? It seems like their rules have gotten much more complete.

I didn't look through the custom rules too much. I looked at the patch
that we apply, and most of it is to allow group access to certain
devices that, for some reason, are not in the stock rules.
i.e. some device has MODE="640" and we switch it to "660" and the like.

As for the custom rules... I can run through those and figure out what we need.

Can anyone that uses more complex devices (I just have usb mice, and
an external harddrive) try the vanilla ruleset to see what we're
missing?