Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759265AbZD2TaX (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753650AbZD2TaF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:05 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:42596 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753536AbZD2TaE (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:26:50 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Kay Sievers , Mike Frysinger , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release Message-ID: <20090429192650.GB15604@kroah.com> References: <20090427193532.GA2948@kroah.com> <8bd0f97a0904291053g3aa71decpd33f6621ad0bf9f8@mail.gmail.com> <20090429180735.GA29812@kroah.com> <8bd0f97a0904291117ic07fadcs2a02fca3dcfefcf0@mail.gmail.com> <20090429191841.GA1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090429191841.GA1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 31 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/