[elrepo] Unified recognition package

[Alan Bartlett]

On 24 May 2011 23:47, Joe Pruett <joey at q7.com> wrote:

> 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.

Joe,

Please feel free to experiment / implement and then report your findings.

Regards,
Alan.