On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 21:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> >>> looks like update-usbids.sh was forgotten from EXTRA_DIST in >> >>> Makefile.am so the released tarball doesnt have the script ;( >> >> > np, i'll send patches for both >> >> Ah missed that, sorry. Sounds good if you add it to the tarball, but >> please don't add it to "make install", as packages should not ship >> scripts which change the installed package content, unless it's a >> config file. > > Debian places it in /var/lib/usbids/ for a good reason. So does Ubuntu. > Both have working "update-usbids" scripts (might be the one from upstream, > or something different). They also have the original file in /usr/share, I > don't know if usbutils was changed to check /var first then /usr, or what. Having several files on the same system sounds crazy from a distro standpoint. There needs to be only a single database by default. Users can do whatever they want anyway, but packages should not support such a thing. If the user updates it, what does a new ids file do? Overwrite it unconditionally? Keep the old outdated hanging around, and lsusb does not pick the new one up? That sounds like total a mess. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
