On Thursday, 7 January 2021 9:10:14 PM AEDT Paul Wise wrote: > When the drivedb.h gets automatically updated by update-smart-drivedb > then the next upgrade of smartmontools will get a conffile prompt that > will have to be manually resolved by a user who won't necessarily be > able to do that, so I don't think that this would be a good idea. > > I also don't think any users need the ability to add their own entries > to drivedb.h, generally people will only pull the latest version in. > > So I think my original suggestion is the better option.
Makes sense, thanks. I'll probably implement unconditional replacement
of "drivedb.h" at first, then think of version detection, if time allows.
> Apart from the $Id version, it might be possible to rely on the dates
> returned by the VCS web servers, I haven't checked this though.
I probably won't have time to look into that in the foreseeable future...
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