On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 17:16 +0200, KH KH wrote: > 2007/7/27, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of > > (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do > > with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always > > wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind? > > I was wondering if rpm can register aliases when it bundles external > kernel module (*.ko) like this iwl3945, so it can tell which module > (external, in it's own rpm / or internally from the kernel) is a > candidate for some specific hardware... There's nothing that stops us from adding something to auto-add provides based on modalias. The "problem" is mostly that it ends up adding a substantial number of provides which bloats the amount of data that has to be looked at, downloaded, etc > Maybe if it can tell more deeply, see that the module is requesting a > specific firmware as a dependency (and versionned firmwares is what > should be set as as rule, probably not only for intel firmwares ?!) > This would be a feature that beginners would appreciate! And similarly, firmware info can be extracted as long as the modules export it. The MODULE_FIRMWARE stuff should help there as it gets used in more modules Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
