RE: udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-27 Thread Getz, Robin
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:59 PM, A. Maitland Bottoms wrote: > This has been a nice discussion. > >My motivation comes from this requirement: >> > * If and when the shared library's SONAME advances, old and new >> >> versions will still be coinstallable as needed to allow for smooth >>

Re: udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-26 Thread A. Maitland Bottoms
This has been a nice discussion. My motivation comes from this requirement: > > * If and when the shared library's SONAME advances, old and new > >> versions will still be coinstallable as needed to allow for > >> smooth transitions. Doing a survey of packages that install rules files to

RE: udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-26 Thread Getz, Robin
On Thursday, September 26, 2019 7:30 AM, James Clarke pondered: >>On 26 Sep 2019, at 03:05, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> >> "Getz, Robin" writes: >> >>> which that means when someone installs the base library (libiio), >>> they can't actually use any USB devices (as a non-root user), since >>>

Re: udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-26 Thread James Clarke
On 26 Sep 2019, at 03:05, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > "Getz, Robin" writes: > >> which that means when someone installs the base library (libiio), they >> can't actually use any USB devices (as a non-root user), since the >> udev rule isn't installed, and the udev rule is dependent on the >>

Re: udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Getz, Robin" writes: > which that means when someone installs the base library (libiio), they > can't actually use any USB devices (as a non-root user), since the > udev rule isn't installed, and the udev rule is dependent on the > libiio-utils package. I'd suggest putting the udev rule in the

udev rules for usb devices?

2019-09-25 Thread Getz, Robin
This is more of a packaging question I guess, but I thought someone here might know best too... I was having a face2face discussion with Maitland at the recent GNU Radio Conference, about this, and I don't think we came to a conclusion. When making a package for USB devices, that need udev