On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:25:45PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > I've pushed the comps change to pull biosdevname into @base by > > default. And I've posted a patch to anaconda-devel-list to pull > > biosdevname into the installtime environment. Cross your fingers, > > this is gonna be great! > > Could anaconda not be smart enough to pull this in to only Dell and HP > systems? Is there a reason all users need a new package for only a > handful of hardware that can use it? > > Not that I am attempting to downplay your work, I just wish to > understand why all my systems keep getting Dell packages (yum plugin) > when I don't own any Dell systems. I fixed the yum plugin bit, so that only gets pulled in (on new installs) if you explicitly install firmware-addon-dell. Before it was part of libsmbios, which was pulled in by hal, so was on everyone's system, but that wasn't intentional. There's no way in rpm/yum/anaconda to specify installing packages by hardware type. That I know of at least... -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
