Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:59:31PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 20:17, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >>> looks like update-usbids.sh was forgotten from EXTRA_DIST in
> >>> Makefile.am so the released tarball doesnt have the script ;(
> 
> > np, i'll send patches for both
> 
> Ah missed that, sorry. Sounds good if you add it to the tarball, but
> please don't add it to "make install", as packages should not ship
> scripts which change the installed package content, unless it's a
> config file.

Distros ship uppdate-usbids.sh, like they do the same for the pci ids
file.  And you can consider the usb.ids file a "config file" :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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