On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> question- If the distro is already producing a modified version of our >> tool to turn .desc files into whatever format is required, can we not >> install that tool as part of sane? And, can we not modify it such that >> it can take arguments to find the .desc file? Then, a new .desc file >> could be dropped in /tmp, and the program could ingest that file and >> output a proper rule? > > Sure, we can do that. sane-desc has never been installed as part of a > SANE installation before because it wasn't used for anything critical > for the end-user. > > It is obvious that this situation has changed a lot since we started > making use of it to generate all the hotplug stuff. > > However, when it comes to udev rules, care must be taken with the LABELs > inside the rules file. The LABELs must not be repeated from one file to > another; failing that, chaos will ensue. (that may make a machine > unbootable until all duplicate LABELs are removed ... been there, done > that, got to keep both pieces)
Ouch. I don't want us to do anything like that. I wonder if it will be possible for the 'third party' files to avoid using LABEL? allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
