2012/6/30 Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net>: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:35:28AM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: >> 2012/6/30 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>: >> > On 30.06.2012 00:18, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:49:29AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:48:06PM +0200, bi...@debian.org wrote: >> >> > /dev/.udev/db has been deprecated a long time ago. >> > If fusioninventory-agent does not actually need that information, why >> > keep the code? >> The agent can still run on older system. > > When you're packaging this software for Debian, you're targetting it > at the versions of the packages in unstable. This code is useless for > wheezy, since all systems will be using the udev version provided with > wheezy, which doesn't include /dev/.udev/db irrespective of whether or > not udev is using /run/udev or /dev/.udev as its directory. It's long > gone, and so is useless to even attempt to use. /dev/.udev doesn't exist anymore on up to date Debian release but the directory, will remains here on older Linux installations.
I don't see a good reason to patch that in the Debian package. At best we will avoid a stat() call on a virtual filesystem and the code is designed to deal with that. > It might be fine to conditionally enable it /if /dev/.udev is present/, > but it should certainly not be using these paths now by default. I > would recommend patching it out in Debian if you do choose to retain it > upstream. Do you know a similar alternative solution to get the list of the block devices and the associated information? Best regards, -- Gonéri Le Bouder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
