On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 19.05.2010 10:56, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: >> Also did a diff [1] between the file lists of kernel26-firmware-2.6.34-1 >> and linux-firmware-git-20100519-1. It shows that ralink firmware has >> indeed been added to the linux-firmware repository, which should resolve >> FS#19519 [2]. > > I did that too and noticed the same. It would also replace all intel > ucode packages, and some more I don't know about. However, it is > considerably bigger than kernel26-firmware (2MB vs. 12MB). How often does it need to be updated? We now (needlessly?) have the firmware package track the actual kernel package so it ends up getting re-downloaded a lot more often than probably necessary, so the above package, while large, would probably be updated less anyway (and would be an 'any' package?). -Dan
