On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:18:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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. Yeah, I was looking into doing some kind of "where to look first" type thing like lspci does. Any suggestions? Specific directory locations and hierarchy that distros are already using? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
