On 01/30/13 11:55, Kay Sievers wrote: Hi, >> Still looks pointless. >> >> You convert the old-format into new-format, then compile new-format into >> the database. It's not obvious why you don't go straight from >> old-format to the database. hwdata package updates would directly show >> up in the database then, without having to touch systemd. > > It's as pointless as shipping a parser for a foreign and irrelevant > format in the hwdb code. You need the parser anyway, for converting the old format into the new, don't you? > And it is as pointless as adding weird code and ./configure stuff > again to udev to find these files in the place of the month, where > some distro poeple decided again where to put it, and every distro in > a different place, with different names or file types. That is a bit nasty indeed. > And it is as pointless as inventing magic rules in the hwdb to > overwrite the old files with possibly new data shipped in the new > format. You could use "import $format $file" syntax in the new format, then plumb a file with a single import line instead of the converted file into the directory. You get the same ordering then. cheers, Gerd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
