Oh, it just occurred to me that a time-based stat() comparison is doomed to fail. dpkg preserves the timestamps of files, so if you install a new package which ships an FDI file, hal won't pick it up immediately. Worse though, even rebooting won't help.
I think the best thing we can do is to nuke the cache in the hal init script, before starting it. -- After an upgrade to intrepid, HAL prefers old fdi-cache to new FDI files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275825 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
