Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> writes:
> qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group
> to 'kvm'.  Its postinst then adds a kvm group.  However udev reads the
> new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't
> exist, and ignores that part of the rule (until reboot, udev restart,
> or the rule is re-added, of course).

Couldn't postint tell udev explicitly to reload rules after the kvm
group was added? The init script has a reload action which calls
udevadm control --reload-rules which might do the right thing.

Ansgar