Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760651AbZD2Uka (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:40:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752191AbZD2UkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:40:18 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:20165 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752077AbZD2UkR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:40:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090429200032.GD1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20090427193532.GA2948@kroah.com> <8bd0f97a0904291053g3aa71decpd33f6621ad0bf9f8@mail.gmail.com> <20090429180735.GA29812@kroah.com> <8bd0f97a0904291117ic07fadcs2a02fca3dcfefcf0@mail.gmail.com> <20090429191841.GA1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20090429195037.GC1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20090429200032.GD1598@khazad-dum.debian.net> From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:39:56 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Mike Frysinger , Greg KH , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 27 On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> And if your distro updates the package, it overwrites the changes you >> did to the file, and they are lost? > > I suppose so, and not just for package updates: if you run update-usbids, > the old one is overwritten AFAIK.  I didn't check the scripts, though.  But > as a long time Debian Developer and user, that's what is implied by its > location in /var. Ah, ok, that sounds fine, if that is still one and the same file, and not a "lookup in several locations and pick one" logic. > If local admin changes are to be preserved, Debian policy mandates that it > belongs on /etc. Sounds a bit special, but if that is the ways it works, and people know that, it's fine I guess. Thanks, Kay -- 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/