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-Usual options for udev installed in the root filesystem are:
- ./configure \
+The options used used usually look like:
+ %configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
- --sbindir=/sbin \
+ --bindir=/usr/bin \
+ --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
--libdir=/usr/lib64 \
- --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \
- --libexecdir=/lib/udev \
+ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/udev \
+ --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \
--with-selinux
-The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like:
+The options used in a RPM spec file look like:
%configure \
--prefix=%{_prefix} \
--sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \
- --sbindir=/sbin \
+ --bindir=%{_bindir} \
+ --sbindir=%{_sbindir} \
--libdir=%{_libdir} \
- --with-rootlibdir=/%{_lib} \
- --libexecdir=/lib/udev \
+ --libexecdir=%{_prefix}/lib/udev \
+ --with-systemdsystemunitdir=%{_prefix}/lib/systemd/system \
--with-selinux
+The options to install udev in the rootfs instead of /usr,
+and udevadm in /sbin:
+ --bindir=/sbin
+ --sbindir=/sbin
+ --libexecdir=/lib/udev
+ --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system
+ --with-rootlibdir=/lib64
+
+Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm in 'bin'
+needs to be manually created if needed.
+
The defined location for scripts and binaries which are called
-from rules is /lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any
+from rules is /usr/lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any
other location will break other packages, who rightfully expect
-the /lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev
+the /usr/lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev
rule files.
-It is possible to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place
+It is possible to use the /usr/lib/udev/devices/ directory to place
device nodes, directories and symlinks, which are copied to /dev/
at every bootup. That way, nodes for devices which can not be
detected automatically, or are activated on-demand by opening the