Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 125 release

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

On Montag, 21. Juli 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here comes a new udev version. Thanks to all who have contributed to
> this release.
>
> The tarball can be found here:
>   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
>
Well, it is not yet there.

> The development repository can be found here:
>   http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=summary
>
> The ChangeLog can be found here:
>  
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=Change
>Log
>
>
> udev 125
> ====
> Bugfixes.
>
> Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should
> be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private
> to the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up
> rule files from:
>   /lib/udev/rules.d/  - default installed rules
>   /etc/udev/rules.d/  - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules
>   /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup
> It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are
> sorted in lexical order.
>

And I wanted to ask the same question as Marco: Do distributions need to move 
these rules to /lib/udev/rules.d/ ?

We on gentoo do use /lib64/udev to be strict on systems using 32 and 64 bit 
libraries, so the rules end in /lib64/udev/rules.d if we choose this way.

Regards
Matthias