Re: usbutils 0.81 release

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 17:59:39 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:42:53PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:23:09 PDT, Greg KH said:
>
> > 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" :)
>
> So my Fedora Rawhide box still has usbutils 0.73. I go snarf usbutils 0.81
> from SourceForge and I find:
>
> [~/src/usbutils-0.81] ls
> AUTHORS Makefile.am aclocal.m4 depcomp list.h missing usbmisc.c
> COPYING Makefile.in config.h.in devtree.c lsusb-t.c names.c usbmisc.h
> ChangeLog NEWS configure devtree.h lsusb.8 names.h
> INSTALL README configure.ac install-sh lsusb.c usb.ids
> [~/src/usbutils-0.81] grep update-usb *
> ChangeLog: * update-usbids.sh: add "-q" (quiet) option for cron jobs;
> ChangeLog: * update-usbids.sh: add, based on update-pciids.sh
> [~/src/usbutils-0.81]
>
> So it's not in the tarball, and it's apparently not created by the Makefile.
>
> So where is it?

As was pointed out by Mike, a bug in the Makefile prevented it from
being added to the tarball.

If youreally want it, you can grab it from the git tree, or wait a day
or so for me to implement Mike's changes he so nicely sent me, so I can
do a new release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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