[Nut-upsdev] automatically installing udev rules?

[Peter Selinger]

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 
> 2007/2/10, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> > On 2/10/07, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:
> > > I think it makes sense to install one (or both) types of files (by
> > > default), regardless of whether the udev binary is found, just in case
> > > the corresponding directories exist. For example, we also install CGI
> > > files without probing for a web server.
> >
> > right.
> >
> > > The number prefix (or perhaps the entire filename?) could be made
> > > separately configurable. I'm not sure how important that prefix
> > > is. Wouldn't basically any number work?
> >
> > Apparently, order matters in some cases.
> >
> > See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-February/002256.html
> 
> I'm definitly for this idea since I've laid down this in the
> scripts/?/README-> TODO
> And that would for sure solve most of our USB issues...
> 
> Just be careful with 1 thing: some system were in transition stage,
> having udev available, but running some hotplug hook.
> So there might be conflicts or at least a redundancy if both hotplug
> and udev rules are installed...

I think a redundancy would not be a problem. Whichever set of rules
applies first, it should do the same thing. In any case, users can
give --without-udev and so on.

So I think it's best to implement the change Charles suggested, and
debug it later when there are actual problems. 

-- Peter