[elrepo] Unified recognition package

[Joe Pruett]

take a look at dell's system for firmware updates.  it has a little
helper program that spits out names of hardware in a format that can be
passed to yum to track down packages.  i haven't looked at it closely
enough to know if it is using 'provides' tags in the rpms to do this, or
what.  but it is pretty simple to use and accomplishes something very
similar to what you're looking for.

On 05/24/2011 03:33 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
>>> Hi guys.
>>>
>>> I was looking "Device ID" page, and was wondering if it's possible to
>>> have intelligent script/program that could scan the system, get all id's
>>> , scan DeviceID table and find all applicable kmod's. Then to check rpm
>>> database and compare installed drivers with available. Is something like
>>> that already started or is there any intention to do so?
>>>
>>> Ljubomir
>> It will be useful to have something like that, yes. No, we do not have
>> anything at this moment. If you can contribute, that would be really
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Akemi
> I wish I could say yes, I'll do it, but I am currently overworked as it 
> is. I own small WISP and work as consultant for Wireless Networks, and 
> for example today I was troubleshooting for 4h, and then in the field 
> about 8h. I took on to learn python (beside pascal, bash, VB) and it 
> took me 10 days to reach page 15.
>
> If nobody can do it, I will eventually develop it, but waiting for me is 
> going to be like waiting for Godo.
>
> Ljubomir
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