On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> And if your distro updates the package, it overwrites the changes you >> did to the file, and they are lost? > > I suppose so, and not just for package updates: if you run update-usbids, > the old one is overwritten AFAIK. I didn't check the scripts, though. But > as a long time Debian Developer and user, that's what is implied by its > location in /var. Ah, ok, that sounds fine, if that is still one and the same file, and not a "lookup in several locations and pick one" logic. > If local admin changes are to be preserved, Debian policy mandates that it > belongs on /etc. Sounds a bit special, but if that is the ways it works, and people know that, it's fine I guess. 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
