Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 01/30/13 11:55, Kay Sievers wrote:
  Hi,

>> Still looks pointless.
>>
>> You convert the old-format into new-format, then compile new-format into
>> the database.  It's not obvious why you don't go straight from
>> old-format to the database.  hwdata package updates would directly show
>> up in the database then, without having to touch systemd.
> 
> It's as pointless as shipping a parser for a foreign and irrelevant
> format in the hwdb code.

You need the parser anyway, for converting the old format into the new,
don't you?

> And it is as pointless as adding weird code and ./configure stuff
> again to udev to find these files in the place of the month, where
> some distro poeple decided again where to put it, and every distro in
> a different place, with different names or file types.

That is a bit nasty indeed.

> And it is as pointless as inventing magic rules in the hwdb to
> overwrite the old files with possibly new data shipped in the new
> format.

You could use "import $format $file" syntax in the new format, then
plumb a file with a single import line instead of the converted file
into the directory.  You get the same ordering then.

cheers,
  Gerd