On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 07:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/22/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What I want to accomplish here is to always be able to grab the latest > > udev tarball and expect it to work, without having to wait weeks for > > distro rule maintainers to update their external rules (and yet have > > them slightly outdated) - but if that's too optimistic, not duplicating > > the shipped udev rules is a step in the right direction :) > > Sorry, but I'm gonna lean towards too optimistic. The only reason the > suse rules get updated at the time of udev release is because Kay > works on suse.
I'm aware of that, but don't see how it conflicts with my argument that they would make a good base to diff against. Quite the opposite :) > The other rules work the same way ours do. Frugalware > and Slackware are the only other distros that submit their rules > changes upstream in a timely manner. But it's not like the udev > release is being delayed until that happens. Which only makes the need for a common set of rules (for all distros, which the distros then patch to meet their needs, instead of having an external set of duplicated/outdated rules for every distro on the planet) even more apparent, IMO. > So, if you want to live on the bleeding edge, I'd suggest using the > default rules or the suse ones. Even if the LFS specific rules were in > the tarball, they wouldn't necessarily be current. This is not my intention. What I asked was if it would be possible to get the LFS rules (those not already provided in the rules.d dir of the udev tarball) into a shape where they could become "the 50-udev-default.rules" Currently I am using suse's 50-udev-default and all the others are from the default rules.d, and it does work alright, except some of the features provided by the LFS rules (generic modprobe for instance) aren't there. No problem, I just make my own rules for them, but I think all users (and distro maintainers) could benefit from a "base" set of rules. The duplicated effort that happens today is just mad. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
