On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 17:16 +0200, KH KH wrote:
2007/7/27, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com>:
> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of
> (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do
> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
I was wondering if rpm can register aliases when it bundles external
kernel module (*.ko) like this iwl3945, so it can tell which module
(external, in it's own rpm / or internally from the kernel) is a
candidate for some specific hardware...
There's nothing that stops us from adding something to auto-add provides
based on modalias. The "problem" is mostly that it ends up adding a
substantial number of provides which bloats the amount of data that has
to be looked at, downloaded, etc
Maybe if it can tell more deeply, see that the module is requesting
a
specific firmware as a dependency (and versionned firmwares is what
should be set as as rule, probably not only for intel firmwares ?!)
This would be a feature that beginners would appreciate!
And similarly, firmware info can be extracted as long as the modules
export it. The MODULE_FIRMWARE stuff should help there as it gets used
in more modules
Jeremy