I just stumbled across this bug on my system, here is what happened on my system:
# ls -l /usr/share/misc pci.ids* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 511686 2008-02-20 10:20 pci.ids # update-pciids # ls -l /usr/share/misc pci.ids* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514201 2008-03-09 17:58 pci.ids.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-03-09 17:58 pci.ids.gz.old The old pci.ids is lost and replaced with an empty pci.ids.gz.old. The new pci.ids.gz is uncompressed but it's name ends in .gz. If lspci prefers an pci.ids.gz (even if actually uncompressed), then new versions of pci.ids installed by package management would be ignored forever. An quick and easy fix to these issues would be to remove ".gz" from the definition of the DEST variable in line 7 of update-pciids. Line 7 should therefore read: DEST=/usr/share/misc/pci.ids In my opinion, update-pciids should not attempt to change the name or format of pci.ids*. It should update it but keep whichever compressed / uncompressed format it finds. This would require some rework on the update-pciids script. At the moment, the pciutils package supplies an uncompressed /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. Until this changes, the suggested change to line 7 of update-pciids would solve the current issues. Thanks Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
