On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:03 PM, William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed that in the latest versions of udev we are patching the > default upstream rules to accomodate our "uucp" group. > > I don't think it is a good idea to patch default rules, so, I want to > bring up possible fixes. > > First, baselayout has had the "dialout" group since 2015, so the > longterm fix imo is to possibly use that instead of the uucp group. What > would it take to make that happen, or are we stuck with the uucp group > forever?
I think a news item targeting current eudev/udev/systemd users announcing the change would suffice. Basically, the change means that modem/serial devices will be owned by the "dialout" group instead of "uucp", so people will need to update their group membership settings if they rely on that. > Also, I think if we are stuck with the uucp group we should write a rule > of our own instead of patching the default rules. If we keep the uucp group, I would prefer to continue patching the udev rule. This makes it very simple to notice if/when upstream makes changes to it. Whatever you do, please keep the systemd and eudev teams in the loop -- this affects more than just sys-fs/udev.
