M gnu-system.am => gnu-system.am +1 -0
@@ 321,6 321,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
gnu/packages/patches/doxygen-test.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/doxygen-tmake.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/emacs-configure-sh.patch \
+ gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/findutils-absolute-paths.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/flashrom-use-libftdi1.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/flex-bison-tests.patch \
M gnu/packages/linux.scm => gnu/packages/linux.scm +2 -1
@@ 1377,7 1377,8 @@ time.")
version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32
- "1w6f8h7fhjz3prs630f8gawv7jx74zi600z0pm997kkp24pyj5wg"))))
+ "1w6f8h7fhjz3prs630f8gawv7jx74zi600z0pm997kkp24pyj5wg"))
+ (patches (list (search-patch "eudev-rules-directory.patch")))))
(arguments
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments udev)
((#:configure-flags flags)
A gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch => gnu/packages/patches/eudev-rules-directory.patch +36 -0
@@ 0,0 1,36 @@
+Add $EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY to the list of rules directories.
+
+The old udev 182 supported $UDEV_CONFIG_FILE, which in turn allowed
+the search path to be customized, but eudev no longer has this, hence
+this hack.
+
+--- eudev-1.9/src/udev/udev-rules.c 2014-09-13 10:21:59.615980259 +0200
++++ eudev-1.9/src/udev/udev-rules.c 2014-09-13 10:24:13.839976335 +0200
+@@ -46,15 +46,11 @@
+ };
+ };
+
+-static const char* const rules_dirs[] = {
++static const char* rules_dirs[] = {
+ UDEV_CONF_DIR "/rules.d",
+ UDEV_RULES_DIR,
+- "/run/udev/rules.d",
+ UDEV_LIBEXEC_DIR "/rules.d",
+-#ifdef HAVE_SPLIT_USR
+- "/lib/udev/rules.d",
+- "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d",
+-#endif
++ NULL, /* placeholder for $EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY */
+ NULL};
+
+ struct udev_rules {
+@@ -1637,6 +1633,9 @@
+
+ udev_rules_check_timestamp(rules);
+
++ /* Allow the user to specify an additional rules directory. */
++ rules_dirs[3] = getenv("EUDEV_RULES_DIRECTORY");
++
+ r = conf_files_list_strv(&files, ".rules", NULL, rules_dirs);
+ if (r < 0) {
+ log_error("failed to enumerate rules files: %s", strerror(-r));