[elrepo] [elrepo-devel] Broken kmod-compat-wireless package

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 08/25/2012 12:18 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> Ah, there are no firmwares as part of the kmod-compat-wireless package 
> - it just provides the drivers.
>
> We do now have a firmware package that will provide these files for you:
>
> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/bcm43xx-firmware-0.0-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm 
>
>
> Question - we can make the firmwares packages a dependency of the 
> kmod-compat-wireless package so when one installs kmod-compat-wireless 
> it will also pull in all the firmwares, but this will literally pull 
> in *all* firmwares, not just the firmware for your specific device.
>
> We were planning to do this, but haven't done it yet. Good idea or 
> not? The plus side is you hopefully get the required firmware 
> automatically installed. The downside is you get a bunch of files 
> installed on your system that aren't in any way relevant to your system.
>

If the size on disk is not "too big", I say do it. People expect things 
to work automagically.
We took the same approach for the CentOS minimal.iso: all the packages 
that provide support for hardware susceptible to be used on a server ( 
ex: Wi-Fi is excluded but aacraid, Brocade & FCOE support is included ) 
get installed even if a few of them would not be needed for that 
specific server.