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This did not really work out as we had hoped. Trying to do this upstream introduced several problems that probably makes it better suited as a downstream patch after all. At any rate, it is not releaseable in the current state, so we at least need to revert this before the release. * by adjusting the path to binaries, but not do the same thing to the search path we end up with inconsistent man-pages. Adjusting the search path too would be quite messy, and it is not at all obvious that this is worth the effort, but at any rate it would have to be done before we could ship this. * this means that distributed man-pages does not make sense as they depend on config options, and for better or worse we are still distributing man pages, so that is something that definitely needs sorting out before we could ship with this patch. * we have long held that split-usr is only minimally supported in order to boot, and something we hope will eventually go away. So before we start adding even more magic/effort in order to make this work nicely, we should probably question if it makes sense at all.
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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<refentry id="hwdb" conditional="ENABLE_HWDB">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>hwdb</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Kay</firstname>
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<surname>Sievers</surname>
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<email>kay@vrfy.org</email>
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</author>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Gundersen</surname>
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<email>teg@jklm.no</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>hwdb</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>hwdb</refname>
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<refpurpose>Hardware Database</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsect1><title>Description</title>
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<para>The hardware database is a key-value store for associating modalias-like keys to
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udev-properties-like values. It is used primarily by udev to add the relevant properties
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to matching devices, but it can also be queried directly.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1><title>Hardware Database Files</title>
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<para>The hwdb files are read from the files located in the
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system hwdb directory <filename>/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
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the local administration directory <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename>.
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All hwdb files are collectively sorted and processed in lexical order,
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regardless of the directories in which they live. However, files with
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identical filenames replace each other. Files in <filename>/etc</filename>
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have the highest priority and take precedence over files with the same
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name in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. This can be used to override a
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system-supplied hwdb file with a local file if needed;
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a symlink in <filename>/etc</filename> with the same name as a hwdb file in
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<filename>/usr/lib</filename>, pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>,
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disables the hwdb file entirely. hwdb files must have the extension
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<filename>.hwdb</filename>; other extensions are ignored.</para>
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<para>The hwdb file contains data records consisting of matches and
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associated key-value pairs. Every record in the hwdb starts with one or
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more match string, specifying a shell glob to compare the database
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lookup string against. Multiple match lines are specified in additional
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consecutive lines. Every match line is compared individually, they are
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combined by OR. Every match line must start at the first character of
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the line.</para>
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<para>The match lines are followed by one or more key-value pair lines, which
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are recognized by a leading space character. The key name and value are separated
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by <literal>=</literal>. An empty line signifies the end
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of a record. Lines beginning with <literal>#</literal> are ignored.</para>
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<para>The content of all hwdb files is read by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-hwdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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and compiled to a binary database located at <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>,
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or alternatively <filename>/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin</filename> if you want ship the compiled
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database in an immutable image.
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During runtime only the binary database is used.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>systemd-hwdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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