Michael E Brown wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:46:17AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposal (short-term): Add the attached find-provides.modinfo
script to the SOURCES of RPM DKMS or KMP packages and override the
builtin RPM %{__find_provides} script
Obviously, we still need to handle providing the regular dependencies,
such as the additional symbols a module is providing, used by others.
Yes, I see that. This shouldnt be too hard to fix.
Oh sure. I was just trying to sound like I read your mail :P
I am looking for feedback. I believe that this method is
conceptually very simple, and yet it should be robust enough to handle
the situations I can envision. I would like to produce something that
will work for Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, and SUSE, at the least. I
believe that this concept can also be extended to work with the
Debian-based distributions.
I am looking to do something at a higher level also and will soon begin
work on a tool to help discover new sources of RPMs/yum repos. So we can
work together in that respect - but I'm looking to also add a GUI layer
that will allow the user to interact upon discovery of new hardware.
I see this as basic infrastructure that can be used by anything. If you have
suggestions for where you would like to see this implemented in the GUI, I
would be happy to help implement it. In fact, since most of the GUI stuff for
admin is python, you could probably easily cut-n-paste this code in.
Do you agree with the approach and proof of concept posted? If so, we can work
on adding this to FC7 as enabling infrastructure and then write the GUI on top
of that.
Exactly. Let's try to get this into F7 soon[0] and then I'll work on the
GUI tools that tie into udev/HAL and handle discovery/configuration. I
can always move this all out into my utility if that's best - I'd
already planned on doing exactly what you proposed, because it's more or
less what's in use by SuSE and makes sense as a standard implementation.
But we can get this in now and tweak it for F8/RHEL6...
Jon.
[0] I'm getting worse by the day here, not better. It might be mono or
another nice virus...so bear with me. I'm taking up to 10 espressos a
day at the moment to keep going.
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