Re: overriding udev rules

2013/8/20 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Am 20.08.2013 10:39, schrieb olivier sallou:

> hi,
> I need for a package to override some udev standard rules.
>
> If I put an identical rule name in /etc/udev/rules.d, I know it overrides
> the one in /lib/udev/rules.d
>
>
> However, lintian raises an error if I put an udev rule in /etc instead of
> /lib.
> And if I try to put the file in /lib, it fails at install because the file
> is owned by udev package.
>
> This particular package is for use in virtual machines creation where
> package removes default network persistence.

Could you elobarate why you need that?
The persistent network interface naming rules are already skipped if
udev is run within a virtual machine.
Might be better to just fix udev if it doesn't work in your case.
For that, it would be good to know more about your problem / use case.

ok,

I am packaging a package for OpenNebula that is to be installed on virtual machine images.

It does many setup at startup.

Among other things, in upstream packages, it replaces 2 udev rules:

75-cd-aliases-generator.rules and 75-persistent-net-generator.rules.

The new rules does nothing, it just expects to skip the existing one.

I did not know that udev skipped (at least) persistent-net in virtual machines so I did not try without those replacement rules (how does it know it is a virtual machine?).

Olivier

Michael

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