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Summary: Review Request: lshw - Hardware Lister (lshw)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229591
------- Additional Comments From lyonel@ezix.org 2007-08-02 03:20 EST ------- Just for clarification: lshw always uses *both* DBs (its own copy, which is updated before every release, therefore usually more recent) and the system's, so it gets the most up-to-date information. Stripping lshw from its DB would mean that we force it to use outdated data (10 April 2007 on my machine).
(In reply to comment #34)
(In reply to comment #32)
especially if the hwdata version is more recent than lshw's...
And one point of maintaining the db, I will look into this issue and make a decision, thanks for the hands up.
I would suggest that there should be only one implementation of each of these files within Fedora and hwdata package is currently the place for this information. My current F7 hwdata is a release from 2007-04, though.
My suggestion would be to not include in the lshw package files already supplied by hwdata. This means that when the source of those files is updated, and we want lshw to be able to use them, we would request an update to the hwdata package. lshw would Requires hwdata.
Lyonel: Is updated hwdata files a sole cause for a new lshw release ? If you are preparing to release a fix/enhancement, do you always retrieve/include updated hwdata files ?