Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)
[Joey Hess] debconf passthrough should work with in-target used like that. Good. Then I guess the patch will work. :) But, discover-pkginstall needs to use the debconf-apt-progress command when it runs aptitude to install packages. Tested fix for discover was just uploaded. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)
Hello, On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in hw-detect. It has nothing to do with hardware detection as used in D-I itself. And it would be nice if it could be disabled by preseeding as well. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.50 Tags:patch For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. An example is the RAID monitoring and administration tools needed to check and configure a hardware RAID (like cpqarrayd and mpt-status). Another is a TV card which might need V4L(2) tools to configure it. In Debian, the discover tool is capable of handling this for USB and PCI devices at the moment. I've written a wrapper script discover-pkginstall to provide hw-detect with a simple way to get these hardware specific packages installed by the installer. The feature have been on my todo list for a long time, so I report this against an old hw-detect version to document this. :) To make the feature really useful, the database with hardware to package mappings in discover-data need to be updated to list all the packages that should be installed when a given PCI or USB device is discovered. At the moment there are 34 PCI and 48 USB devices with package mappings in the database, but I am sure there are more hardware we should handle out there. This untested patch relative to the current svn source should implement this feature: Index: hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages === --- hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages(revision 0) +++ hw-detect.post-base-installer.d/60install-hwpackages(revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +set -e + +. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + +apt-install discover || true +if [ -x /target/sbin/discover-pkginstall ] ; then + in-target discover-pkginstall +fi I suspect it need more work to get the debconf stuff to work properly from within d-i. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: +apt-install discover || true +if [ -x /target/sbin/discover-pkginstall ] ; then + in-target discover-pkginstall +fi I suspect it need more work to get the debconf stuff to work properly from within d-i. debconf passthrough should work with in-target used like that. But, discover-pkginstall needs to use the debconf-apt-progress command when it runs aptitude to install packages. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#577451: hw-detect: Should automatically install hardware related packages (RAID tools, printer drivers, fingerprint scanner tools, etc)
reassign 577451 pkgsel severity 577451 wishlist thanks On Sunday 11 April 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: For some kind of hardware, it would be very nice if the Debian installer automatically installed the packages to support the hardware in question. IMO this belongs in pkgsel, not in hw-detect. It has nothing to do with hardware detection as used in D-I itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
