On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:01:21 +0800
Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 12 July 2012 07:42, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:57:42PM +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> >> Il 11/07/2012 21:11, William Hubbs ha scritto:
> >> > I am about to release udev-186-r1, which will move everything
> >> > currently in /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev.
> >>
> >> Unless you're going to establish a symlink, please keep it under
> >> p.mask until everything is using some common code — otherwise
> >> things _will_ break.
> >
> > Since multiple packages put things in /lib/udev, I'm not sure it is
> > possible to establish a symlink from /lib/udev to /usr/lib/udev if
> > that's what you mean; I'll look into it though.
> 
> Couldn't you, on udev upgrade, move everything in /lib/udev to
> /usr/lib/udev, and then make the symlink? Seems fairly simple
> to me, but maybe I'm overlooking something?

You are overlooking conflicts introduced through moving files without
updating vardb.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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