Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a ticket opened, and since closed as invalid that > some Udev rules belong in /lib/udev instead of /etc/udev. > > To me, Udev rules are configuration items and belong in > /etc, but that's just my opinion. > > There was a mention (not sure how valid it is) that the > Udev maintainers suggest /lib/udev as the proper place. > > I'm posting this to see if anyone has any other information > that may be relevant to this issue. > > Sorry...already reopened as I didn't see Bruce's comment about closing it. Closed it again. Well anyway, Dan posted a link to the conversation upstream.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/12895 Bottom line, it is still left to opinion for now. However, I too am leaning towards /lib/udev/rules.d myself for both rule sets. Taken from the README: > Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, > should > be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are > private to > the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick > up rule > files from: > /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules > /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after > bootup > It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are > sorted > in lexical order. "Will be replaced with an update" is the kicker. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
