[arch-projects] [HEADSUP] udevd moved out of PATH

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue Oct 11 11:15:02 EDT 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>>> I don't think we should add hacks to our packages to allow things that
>>> are not supported by upstream. The proper solution to this would be to
>>> file a feature request against udevadm, and in the meantime keep some
>>> script that does what you want (if it can be done).
> Agreed- can you point me to the udev bug tracker so I can file said request?

They don't have one. Any bugs go to the ML: <linux-hotplug at vger.kernel.org>.

>> If it turns out that restarting udevd is indeed the correct thing to
>> do on upgrade, then we should just do that in the install script,
>> which of course would be easy to keep in sync with whatever path udevd
>> uses.
> Whoa. I might concede the rest of my argument, but we NEVER EVER EVER
> touch running programs on an Arch system. Ever.

Ok, as long as it works, that's fine by me.

-t


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