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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:03:17PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:59, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> > Le Samedi 12 Février 2005 11:00, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:32:35AM -0500, David Michael Leo Brown Jr. 
> wrote:
> > > > Also remember the GROUP="<group>" field.  Don't know what led them to
> > > > change things this way but... okay
> > >
> > > They wanted to have all policy related to device nodes in one place
> > > with one syntax instead of two files with different syntax. There was
> > > quite a bit of flamage about that change on the linux-hotplug list, but
> > > that's how they decided to do it.
> > >
> > > > > I'm just putting this out now, since it seems no other notice was
> > > > > given. The new version of udev, in test no longer uses the
> > > > > udev.permissions file.  It's all part of the udev.rules file.  Make
> > > > > sure you update your udev.rules file before you reboot.  The new
> > > > > parameter is 'MODE="####"'
> > It seems that several people are not aware of the new configure stuff and
> > think the >0.50 versions are buggy....
> > I think we should add a comment at the end of install, perhaps during a
> > month or two.... And also copy the new udev.rules in /etc/udev/udev.rules 
> > I
> > can take care of that if needed.
> Ooops, I wanted to say "copy the new udev.rules 
> in /etc/udev/udev.rules.example"

Sounds good to me, please do that.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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