[arch-general] udev rules policy

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Wed Apr 22 10:19:18 EDT 2009


Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 schrieb Damjan Georgievski:
> What is the policy for Udev rules in ArchLinux?
>
> There are 2 places where udev rules can be placed, /lib/udev/rules.d/
> and /etc/udev/rules.d/.
> Now, I think the /lib/ directory should be only for the rules coming
> from upstream udev, and the /etc/ directory is for rules coming from
> ArchLinux packages.
>
> If this is the policy everyone agrees on - and as far as I remember,
> udev devs recommends it too - maybe namcap can check that too?
>
> ps.
> the KVM package now has rules in /lib/ , so I'll open a bug report if
> that's not supposed to be like that.
Normally udev rules should go to /lib that the user can override them with 
/etc rule file.

greetings
tpowa

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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