Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The biggest issue is that we'd need to do it before d-i RC1 or another
>> installer upload would be required to get it in sync with the archive.
>
> It has been uploaded now. Shall I unblock it already? Does it need to
> get into testing fast, or just h
* Otavio Salvador [Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:51:20 -0300]:
> Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In the changelog of pciutils 1:2.1.11-15.3, Christian Perrier applied a
> > patch by Colin Watson which stripped the subsystem ids. That changelog
> > is dated 3 Dec 2005.
> This is ind
Hello!
> Readable: I don't find that actual version is readable, in particular
> with biggest vendor (i.e. I need a lot of scroll to see if I'm in the
> right section).
This is however not solved by repeating the vendor ID at every line,
because people usually do not remember the vendor by the ID
Martin Mares wrote:
I think that changing the format of the file (with other suffix) would
also be helpful, i.e. instead of using tab-indent I would explicitly
writing vendor id (ev. other implicit ids) in every line.
In this manner it is easier to grep for hardware, and also to merge
files fr
> I think that changing the format of the file (with other suffix) would
> also be helpful, i.e. instead of using tab-indent I would explicitly
> writing vendor id (ev. other implicit ids) in every line.
>
> In this manner it is easier to grep for hardware, and also to merge
> files from differen
Martin Mares wrote:
Dropping this information in the udeb is if course a good way of saving
space, but the full package should contain everything.
In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem:
with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file
is getti
Martin Mares wrote:
> In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem:
> with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file
> is getting out of date very quickly and there is no way how to update
> it nicely.
> I suggest that we should split off the pci.ids
> volatile is up to the volatile maintainers, though updating it on
> volatile won't make it usefull for installing new systems...
The ability to update the pci.ids from -volatile was meant as a small
icing at the top of the cake -- I see the real benefit in the possibility
of fetching a package w
> Dropping this information in the udeb is if course a good way of saving
> space, but the full package should contain everything.
In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem:
with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file
is getting out of date very
Hello!
> My point is that pci.ids has been stripped in both the udeb and the
> normal binary packages for a number of debian versions of pciutils.
Yes, but only in testing. The Etch version is complete.
Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares
Hello and thanks for the prompt response!
> Martin, what is the pros of having this striped data available?
In many cases, the subsystem ID is needed to reliably identify a PCI card
as the manufacturers are used to make multiple cards with the same chip,
but wired differently.
Dropping this info
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:51:20PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>The biggest issue is that we'd need to do it before d-i RC1 or another
>installer upload would be required to get it in sync with the archive.
I'll upload 1:3.0.0-5 for the consideration of the D-I and the release
teams this evening
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:24:32AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>... for the udeb, not for the main package.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>That's all well and good, but if something is stripped for D-I, it
>should only be stripped for the udeb, not for the versio
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Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the changelog of pciutils 1:2.1.11-15.3, Christian Perrier applied a
> patch by Colin Watson which stripped the subsystem ids. That changelog
> is dated 3 Dec 2005.
This is indeed a bug since i
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:52:19AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:28:15PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>>
>>I am concerned with the state of the pci.ids file in the current
>>pciutils package. It is seriously broken: It contains no subsystem
>>entries, no programmin
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:17:31 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> In the changelog of pciutils 1:2.1.11-15.3, Christian Perrier applied a
> patch by Colin Watson which stripped the subsystem ids. That changelog
> is dated 3 Dec 2005.
>
... for the udeb, not for the main package.
Cheers,
J
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:52:19AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:28:15PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>>I am concerned with the state of the pci.ids file in the current
>>pciutils package. It is seriously broken: It contains no subsystem
>>entries, no programming i
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:28:15PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
>Hello, world!\n
>
>I am concerned with the state of the pci.ids file in the current
>pciutils package. It is seriously broken: It contains no subsystem
>entries, no programming interface entries and no comments including the
>top commen
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