On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 21:50, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > 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 > > We are talking about two files, here. Not several. > >> can do whatever they want anyway, but packages should not support such >> a thing. > > If they are to be useful, yes, they do. Or do you want us to package just > the usb-ids text file by itself and keep updating it all the time? That's > the only other possibility, and it is done for the tzdata. > > But update-usbids (like update-pciids and update-intel-microcode) works just > fine, so likely the usbutils maintainer didn't have any reasons to move from > update-usbids to a volatile package. > >> If the user updates it, what does a new ids file do? Overwrite it > > Well, the package overwrites the older one if the download suceeds with a > mv. No mess. If the download fails, the temp file is removed, and the > older one remains untouched. > > There is no mess here. And it might be a simple case of the package > creating /var/lib/usbids/usb.ids at post-install time from the static > packaged data, and usbutils always using just /var/lib/usbids/usb.ids. I am > not the maintainer of that package, and sincerely, given your tone, I am not > inclined to go fetch the source and read the scripts. > > Now, I am not sure there is any checking against partial downloads. That is > one thing a more controlled volatile package would be better at. And if your distro updates the package, it overwrites the changes you did to the file, and they are lost? 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
