Re: new release of udev?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:07:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 22, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > It was _you_ who asked to be able to overwrite the system specified rules
> > > > for symlinks. That's not possible this way. And again, how do you prevent
> > > Sure it is: if you want to override any previous value you use SYMLINK> > > instead of the usual SYMLINK+=.
> > System-supplied rules are usually _not_ "previous". This will not work.
> Usually? Users will put their custom rules where it's needed to make
> them work, I do not think this is a great argument.

Well, I personaly prefer to put _all_ my custom rules in _one_ file.
Your solution solves only _your_ problem, which _is_ a great argument.

> > > > overriding the permissions from later system specified rules?
> > > By documenting that system rules files are installed only in specific
> > > parts of the name space, this is something which is needed for every
> > > scheme.
> > What scheme? What namespace? What documentation? Care to be more
> > specific?
> The rules.d/ directory file names. For the debian package I'm documenting
> a policy like "all default permissions are set before 030_*" and "RUN
> rules must be set from z40_* onward" (the actual values will change).
> If the order of rules is important, then this needs to be documented to
> allow users and package maintainers to choose the right file names.

Well, sounds like a pretty complicated requirement to solve a simple problem.

Anyway, I will do the "final assignments". Just ignore it if you don't
like it. :)
I see no problem to clear a value list if "=" is used instead of '+='.
The parser already supports this, I wanted to do this somtimes anyway.

I will _not_ add any more OPTIONS for individual keys like the "last_run_rule",
stuff. That belongs to the key operation itself not in the OPTIONS.

Kay


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