Re: [PATCH] add a way to disable xen's udev script.

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>]

On 06/09/2011 08:42 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> and of course working with the maintainer of the package you wish to
> integrate with is clearly out of the question?

This is an upstream issue in the first place. The assumption that 
everyone is supposed to use those *globally* installed udev scripts that 
are targeted to xend and to some extent xl, is simply false.

While i used the debian package as an example, the same is true for 
every other xen packages that i looked at.

And adding a Conflicts entry is just not a solution either, since you 
need install/removes packages (and restarting udev) to switch toolstacks 
whereas my solution involves no such thing.

In any case, installing multiple toolstacks in parallel would *have* to
have a *dynamic* way to execute different udev scripts, which I might 
argue that's exactly what i provide in a very simple way with a dummy 
file mechanism (not ideal mechanism, but just does the job trivially).

>> There's more than likely a perfect way to splice the packages to make it
>> a package issue only, however I'm not terribly interested in putting
>> more efforts than a *trivial* 1 line change.
>
> Sorry, but I don't think you motivation or lack thereof justifies adding
> this sort of hack to the upstream Xen code base.

Please. joking so early !
Those scripts are hacks in the first place, and are taking advantages of 
udev flexibility to do horrid stuff.

-- 
Vincent