Re: Install packages automatically based on the detected hardware
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Would you like to have gtkpod installed automatically if an ipod is in
> the machine? Or 915resolution if your video card is supported by it?
> Or perhaps mpt-status if your RAID controller uses the mptscshih
> kernel module? Until yesterday, this was not possible in Debian. Now
> it is.
Yay! That's a great feature. Thank you for coding it.
> But for this to be useful, a database of hardware->package mappings
> need to be updated. At the moment a few entries are listed in the
> discover-data package, but I am sure more of them. If you know some
> debian packages that is useful or required to use a specific piece of
> hardware, please report a wishlist bug against discover-data
> specifying the hardware id (PCI, USB, SBus, etc.) and the package
> name. I am mostly interested in packages in main, but also packages
> in contrib and non-free are interesting.
Ideally, we should rely on our users to send us suggestions here. But for
that we need to write down a wiki explaining how to get the required
information (lsusb, lspci, etc.).
Of course, this need to advertised to a wider audience than -devel.
-devel-announce seems a good option.
> I hope to have this feature integrated into debian-installer before
> etch, so useful hardware related packages can be installed
> automatically on request.
I look forward to that!
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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