[sane-devel] As instructed by /etc/udev/rules.d/libsane.rules

[m. allan noah]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> question- If the distro is already producing a modified version of our
>> tool to turn .desc files into whatever format is required, can we not
>> install that tool as part of sane? And, can we not modify it such that
>> it can take arguments to find the .desc file? Then, a new .desc file
>> could be dropped in /tmp, and the program could ingest that file and
>> output a proper rule?
>
> Sure, we can do that. sane-desc has never been installed as part of a
> SANE installation before because it wasn't used for anything critical
> for the end-user.
>
> It is obvious that this situation has changed a lot since we started
> making use of it to generate all the hotplug stuff.
>
> However, when it comes to udev rules, care must be taken with the LABELs
> inside the rules file. The LABELs must not be repeated from one file to
> another; failing that, chaos will ensue. (that may make a machine
> unbootable until all duplicate LABELs are removed ... been there, done
> that, got to keep both pieces)

Ouch. I don't want us to do anything like that. I wonder if it will be
possible for the 'third party' files to avoid using LABEL?

allan
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