Mike McGrath wrote:
On 1/31/07, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> > *Note: this is not LHCP, which is going to be a much larger project.
> > Smolt has a much smaller scope and will ultimately (hopefully) be
> > replaced by LHCP when it is ready.
>
> So, the issue I see is that the data appears to be stored as HAL
> descriptive strings - these could change over time. Storing
> it as vendor/id pairs might be more flexible.
>
> (Or is this actually done that way, and the display on the website
> is what's doing the conversion?)
>
They're presently being pulled from the hardware object created using
the RHN client tools. I'll look to see what it would take to get
vendor/id pairs.
Ouch. The way RHN currently deals with hardware is pretty painful, at
least server-side; a bunch of us are interested in pursuing something
more HAL'ish, drop me a line if you're interested, and maybe we can see
if there are points of commonality.
--Bret