I just discovered ubuntu got a tool I have been planning to make for Debian, the hwdb-client package making it trivial for the user to submit information about their hardware to a central location. The source for it is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hwdb-client/>, and the data is submitted to <URL:http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/>.
Anyone know more about this? That database would make the life of us discover-data maintainers a lot easier. Should we set up our own database, or can we get access to and a copy of the Ubuntu database? I notice Mandriva have a similar system also called hwdb-clients, and it report info to <URL:http://hwdb.mandriva.com/>. Is this a similar system or the same system? It should be fairly easy to port the Ubuntu client to Debian, and the user-visible server part is a script accepting HTTP put/post. It seem to be very similar to the popularity-contest HTTP collector. The interesting parts of the server on the other hand would be the parts making reports based on the reported hardware information. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
