[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev hwdb: Store binary database in libdir, not in /etc

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 17.06.13 06:41, Martin Pitt (martin.pitt at ubuntu.com) wrote:

> > 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).

I cannot parse this.

Let me try to explain this a different way: in RPM-speak the files in
/etc should ideally either be %ghost'ed or %config'ed, and the ones in
/usr should be neither. 

Lennart

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