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SubjectRe: usbutils 0.81 release
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:18:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > >>> looks like update-usbids.sh was forgotten from EXTRA_DIST in
> > >>> Makefile.am so the released tarball doesnt have the script ;(
> >
> > > np, i'll send patches for both
> >
> > Ah missed that, sorry. Sounds good if you add it to the tarball, but
> > please don't add it to "make install", as packages should not ship
> > scripts which change the installed package content, unless it's a
> > config file.
>
> Debian places it in /var/lib/usbids/ for a good reason. So does Ubuntu.
> Both have working "update-usbids" scripts (might be the one from upstream,
> or something different). They also have the original file in /usr/share, I
> don't know if usbutils was changed to check /var first then /usr, or what.

Yeah, I was looking into doing some kind of "where to look first" type
thing like lspci does.

Any suggestions? Specific directory locations and hierarchy that
distros are already using?

thanks,

greg k-h


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