Re: udev and the 'hotplug' package

[Amaya <amaya@debian.org>]

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marlin9@gmx.ch wrote:
> The /usr/share/doc/udev/changelog.Debian.gz has (bottom up):

No, you have to read the entry for the the udev version I mentioned.

udev (0.079-080+1) experimental; urgency=low

  * 080 prerelease.
    + Fixes typos in udev(8). (Closes: #345107)
  * Fixed raid-devfs.sh for the busybox cat. (Closes: #343262)
  * Fixed udevsynthesize to deal with sysfs files with embedded spaces.
    (Closes: #344821)
  * Raised the dependency on libselinux1-dev to 1.28-1, which provides
    the matchpathcon_* functions.
  * permissions.rules: added an usb_device rule for iRiver music players.
  * Added vio.agent to the initramfs.
  * Added a note to README.Debian about hotplug removal. (Closes: #345123)

 -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>  Mon,  9 Jan 2006 17:30:58 +0100

Last statement is the one I was pointing you to.

>From /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz:

udevd also manages the hotplug events and if needed dispatches them to
other programs using RUN rules, as a replacement of the old /sbin/hotplug.
The hotplug package is not needed anymore and is disabled when udev is
installed, so it should be removed.

> It's the existence of /etc/hotplug which confuses me.

Easy, hotplug is not in its own package anymore, it is now included with
udev, or replaced with udev. 

> In testing/unstable, libsane has installed a hook in /etc/hotplug.d,
> and also in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d, while libgphoto has a file in
> /etc/hotplug/usb ... it's my best idea now that if all packages would
> consider placing their hooks into /etc/udev to be sufficient, then
> these folders in /etc wouldn't be necessary anymore and could 
> be deleted ... am i right ? But maybe there are icky implications.

If you are using udev >= 0.079-080+1 (check with 'dpkg -l udev'), you should
purge hotplug. I see that the udev version in testing is 0.093-1 so yes, you
sholud.

This mailing list is probably a poor place to ask these questions, I
suggest you ask the maintainer himself, Marco D'Itri. 


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