From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] install udev rules into rules.d
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:20:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723182048.GB7603@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19529.51096.524315.988459@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, Jul 23, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Olaf Hering writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] install udev rules into rules.d"):
> > - $(INSTALL_DATA) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(UDEV_RULES_DIR); \
> > - ln -sf ../$$i $(DESTDIR)$(UDEV_RULES_DIR)/rules.d; \
> > + $(INSTALL_DATA) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(UDEV_RULES_DIR)/rules.d; \
>
> What will this do if run on a system which already has the symlink
> arrangement from the previous versions of Xen ? Perhaps some kind of
> fixing up is necessary.
I tried strace -f -o x -s 123 install a b, and b was unlinked first.
So it appears that the patch above is save.
Packing systems get this symlink-to-file thing right as well.
Olaf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 12:16 [PATCH] install udev rules into rules.d Olaf Hering
2010-07-23 16:47 ` Ian Jackson
2010-07-23 18:20 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
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