[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev hwdb: Store binary database in libdir, not in /etc
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Sun Jun 16 21:41:05 PDT 2013
Lennart Poettering [2013-06-17 2:52 +0200]:
> The file is supposed to be be built on the installed system so that
> other packages or the admin can drop in additional hwdb files. And yes,
> it is not a package manager controlled file, which is precisely why I am
> saying it belongs to /etc, not /usr.
(See my other response to Tom about details)
> No, by placing it in /usr (or /lib, for old distributions which haven't
> done the /usr merge yet) you break the rule that the files the systemd
> package installs in /usr should be the same on all installations of the
> same package version.
It doesn't at the moment, as the file is in the package it is the same
on all installations (of the same architecture).
Martin
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