[Bug 229591] Review Request: lshw - Hardware Lister (lshw)

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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 at 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mean that we force it to use outdated data (10 April 2007 on my machine).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 ?



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