Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. No. They place a symlink from /usr/share to /var/lib: bjorn@nemi:~$ ls -l /usr/share/misc/usb.ids lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2009-01-24 01:36 /usr/share/misc/usb.ids -> /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids bjorn@nemi:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/misc/usb.ids usbutils: /usr/share/misc/usb.ids The symlink is probably there for compatibility with other (possibly non-Debian) utilities. Debian usbutils does not use the /usr/share path itself: bjorn@nemi:~$ strings /usr/sbin/lsusb |grep usb.ids ./usb.ids ./usb.ids.gz /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids.gz However, looks like the Debian hal uses it. That's probably the main reason for the symlink: bjorn@nemi:~$ strings /usr/sbin/hald |grep usb.ids /usr/share/misc/usb.ids Couldn't stat usb.ids file '%s', errno=%d: %s Couldn't open usb.ids file '%s', errno=%d: %s Couldn't mmap usb.ids file '%s', errno=%d: %s usb_ids_load Bjørn -- 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
